Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 0
In a language olympiad you often get a short real text - a postcard, a sign, a menu, a recipe - and must work out what it says without a dictionary, like a code-breaker.
Who acts: you, text · What happens: get, work out, say · To what, where: short real text, language olympiad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» 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 (you, text), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 olympiad | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 olympiad | det |
| 3 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 olympiad | compound |
| 4 | olympiad | olympiad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 text | det |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 text | amod |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 text | amod |
| 11 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 postcard | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 postcard | det |
| 14 | postcard | postcard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 text | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sign | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sign | det |
| 17 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 postcard | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 menu | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 menu | det |
| 20 | menu | menu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 postcard | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 recipe | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 recipe | det |
| 23 | recipe | recipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 postcard | conj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 work | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 work | cc |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 work | aux |
| 27 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | conj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 work | compound:prt |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 says | obj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 says | nsubj |
| 31 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 work | conj |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 34 dictionary | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 dictionary | det |
| 34 | dictionary | dictionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 says | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 breaker | punct |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 breaker | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 breaker | det |
| 38 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 breaker | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 code | punct |
| 40 | breaker | breaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 work | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | you | a short real text | a language olympiad | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer text=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | work out | must | you not said here | like a code breaker | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | text | without a dictionary | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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