Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 1
Start with the words you know (famille, chat, trois, fromage), then the lookalikes that really are friends (perché, perched; sucre, sugar), and only then guess the rest from what makes sense in that place.
Who acts: you, lookalikes · What happens: start, know, be, perch, guess, make · To what, where: lookalikes, famille, friends, rest, sense, place
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, lookalikes), 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 | Start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Start | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 famille | punct |
| 8 | famille | famille | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chat | punct |
| 10 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 famille | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trois | punct |
| 12 | trois | trois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 famille | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fromage | punct |
| 14 | fromage | fromage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 famille | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 famille | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lookalikes | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 lookalikes | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lookalikes | det |
| 19 | lookalikes | lookalike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Start | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 friends | nsubj |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 friends | advmod |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 friends | cop |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lookalikes | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 perché | punct |
| 25 | perché | perché | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 friends | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 perched | punct |
| 27 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 friends | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 sucre | punct |
| 29 | sucre | sucre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 perched | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sugar | punct |
| 31 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sucre | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 sugar | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 guess | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 guess | cc |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 37 guess | advmod |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 guess | advmod |
| 37 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Start | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rest | det |
| 39 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 guess | obj |
| 40 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 42 makes | mark |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 makes | nsubj |
| 42 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 guess | advcl |
| 43 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 makes | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 place | case |
| 45 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 place | det |
| 46 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 makes | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Start | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | imperative | you not said here | the lookalikes | with the words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with word=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | know | present | you | famille and chat and trois and fromage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer famille=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the lookalikes | friends and perché | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | perch | participle | friends and perché not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | guess | infinitive | you not said here | the rest | then | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | |||
| 6 | make | present | sense | that place | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sense=Product |
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:1.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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