Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 3
Picture a lamppost in Dieppe with a poster: "Perdu : petit chat noir, yeux verts." The first word is the key - perdu means lost - so this is someone looking for their cat, not selling one.
Who acts: you, yeux, first word, perdu, this, someone · What happens: picture, vert, be, mean, lose, look · To what, where: lamppost, Dieppe, Perdu, key, someone, one
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, yeux, first word, perdu), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lamppost | det |
| 3 | lamppost | lamppost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Dieppe | case |
| 5 | Dieppe | Dieppe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lamppost | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 poster | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 poster | det |
| 8 | poster | poster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Perdu | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Perdu | punct |
| 11 | Perdu | Perdu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 poster | appos |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 noir | punct |
| 13 | petit | petit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 noir | compound |
| 14 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noir | compound |
| 15 | noir | noir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Perdu | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 verts | punct |
| 17 | yeux | yeux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 verts | nsubj |
| 18 | verts | vert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Perdu | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 verts | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 word | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 word | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 word | amod |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 key | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 key | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 key | det |
| 26 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 key | punct |
| 28 | perdu | perdu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | nsubj |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 key | parataxis |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 means | xcomp |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 selling | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 selling | advmod |
| 33 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 someone | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 someone | cop |
| 35 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 selling | nsubj |
| 36 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 someone | acl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 cat | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 cat | nmod:poss |
| 39 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looking | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 selling | punct |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 selling | advmod |
| 42 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Picture | advcl |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 selling | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a lamppost | Dieppe | with a poster | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lamppost=Theme | ||
| 2 | vert in a quote | present | yeux | Perdu not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the first word | the key | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | perdu | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | lose not said to happen | participle | perdu not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | this | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | look | gerund | for words's cat | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cat=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not sell | gerund | someone | one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:3.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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