Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 22
J'achète un livre sur les chevaux." means on Saturday she goes to the bookshop with her dad and buys a book about horses.
Who acts: J'achète, arrivée · What happens: mean, go, buy · To what, where: bookshop, book · 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 (J'achète, arrivée), 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 | J'achète | j'achète | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 means | nsubj |
| 2 | un | un | X | _ | 1 J'achète | flat:foreign |
| 3 | livre | livre | X | _ | 1 J'achète | flat:foreign |
| 4 | sur | sur | X | _ | 1 J'achète | flat:foreign |
| 5 | les | le | X | _ | 1 J'achète | flat:foreign |
| 6 | chevaux | chevaux | X | _ | 1 J'achète | flat:foreign |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 J'achète | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Saturday | case |
| 11 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 goes | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bookshop | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bookshop | det |
| 16 | bookshop | bookshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goes | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 dad | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dad | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goes | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 buys | cc |
| 21 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 goes | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 book | det |
| 23 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buys | obj |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 horses | case |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 book | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | J'achète | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | arrivée | the bookshop | saturday | with arrivée's dad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bookshop=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | buy in a quote | present | arrivée not said here | a book | about horses | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
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:22.
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. 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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