Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 10

"Défense de marcher sur la pelouse" means "Keep off the grass": défense de means it is forbidden to, marcher is to walk, la pelouse is the lawn.

Who acts: Défense, marcher, la pelouse · What happens: mean, keep off, be · To what, where: grass, lawn · 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 (Défense, marcher, la pelouse), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Défense	punct
2	Défense	Défense	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 means	nsubj
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Défense	flat:foreign
4	marcher	marcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sur	compound
5	sur	sur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Défense	appos
6	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	9 means	advmod
7	pelouse	pelouse	X	_	6 la	goeswith
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 la	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Keep	punct
11	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	ccomp
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 Keep	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Keep	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Keep	punct
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 défense	punct
17	défense	défense	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	nsubj
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 défense	nmod
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 forbidden	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 forbidden	aux:pass
22	forbidden	forbidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 means	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	22 forbidden	csubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 walk	punct
25	marcher	marcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walk	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 walk	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	28 walk	mark
28	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Keep	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lawn	punct
30	la	la	X	_	31 pelouse	compound
31	pelouse	pelouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lawn	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 lawn	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lawn	det
34	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Keep	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Défense			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep off in a quote	infinitive		the grass		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
3	mean	present	défense de			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	marcher		walk property	tree rules
5	is a	present	la pelouse	the lawn		tree rules

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:10.

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, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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