Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 19
Il s'appelle Minou." means "Lost: small black cat with green eyes, called Minou".
Who acts: Il · What happens: s'appelle, mean, lose, call · To what, where: Minou, small black cat · 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 (Il), 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 | Il | Il | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 s'appelle | nsubj |
| 2 | s'appelle | s'appelle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | Minou | Minou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 s'appelle | obj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 s'appelle | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 s'appelle | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lost | punct |
| 8 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | ccomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 cat | punct |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cat | amod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cat | amod |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Lost | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cat | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cat | acl |
| 18 | Minou | Minou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Minou | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | s'appelle | present | Il | Minou | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | participle | small black cat with green eyes not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:19.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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