Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 2

Watch for traps: false friends like librairie, tiny words that flip the meaning like ne ... pas, and French habits such as a comma in a price - 9,50 € means nine euros fifty.

Who acts: you, tiny words, € · What happens: watch, flip, mean · To what, where: meaning, nine euros

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, tiny words, €), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 traps	case
3	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 friends	punct
5	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friends	amod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 traps	appos
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 librairie	case
8	librairie	librairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friends	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 words	punct
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 friends	conj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 flip	nsubj
13	flip	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 words	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meaning	det
15	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flip	obj
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 ne	case
17	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flip	obl
18	...	...	PUNCT	_	19 pas	punct
19	pas	pas	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ne	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 habits	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 habits	cc
22	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 habits	amod
23	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ne	conj
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	27 comma	case
25	as	as	ADP	_	24 such	fixed
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 comma	det
27	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 habits	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 price	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 price	det
30	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 comma	nmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 9,50	punct
32	9,50	9,50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 price	appos
33	€	€	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 means	nsubj
34	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
35	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 euros	nummod
36	euros	euro	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 means	obj
37	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 euros	flat
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here		for traps	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for trap=Theme
2	flip	present	tiny words	the meaning	like ne and pas and French habits such a comma in a price	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
3	mean	present	€	nine euros		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent euro=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:2.

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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