False friends, sentence 9

Attendre means to wait: J'attends le bus means "I'm waiting for the bus".

Who acts: Attendre, J'attends, I · What happens: mean, wait · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «False friends» of the french course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Attendre, J'attends, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Attendre	Attendre	X	Foreign=Yes	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wait	mark
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	xcomp
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 J'attends	punct
6	J'attends	attendre	X	Foreign=Yes	9 means	nsubj
7	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	8 bus	det
8	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 J'attends	obj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 waiting	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 waiting	aux
13	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 means	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 bus	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bus	det
16	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waiting	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Attendre		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	Attendre not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present	J'attends		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wait in a quote	present · progressive	I	for the bus	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:french:035-false-friends.lesson:9.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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