Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 9
"Menu enfant : steak haché, frites, glace à la vanille - 9,50 €" is a kids' menu: a minced-beef patty, chips and vanilla ice cream for 9 euros 50; French writes a comma where English writes a decimal point.
Who acts: French, English · What happens: be, mince, write · To what, where: menu, comma, decimal point
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 (French, English), 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 | _ | 3 enfant | punct |
| 2 | Menu | menu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enfant | compound |
| 3 | enfant | enfant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frites | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 haché | punct |
| 5 | steak | steak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 haché | compound |
| 6 | haché | haché | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enfant | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 frites | punct |
| 8 | frites | frite | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 glace | punct |
| 10 | glace | glace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frites | conj |
| 11 | à | à | ADP | _ | 13 vanille | case |
| 12 | la | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vanille | det |
| 13 | vanille | vanille | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glace | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 9,50 | punct |
| 15 | 9,50 | 9,50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 vanille | appos |
| 16 | € | € | SYM | _ | 15 9,50 | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 9,50 | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 menu | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kids | det |
| 20 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 menu | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 kids | case |
| 22 | menu | menu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glace | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 patty | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 patty | det |
| 25 | minced | mince | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 patty | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 minced | punct |
| 27 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 patty | compound |
| 28 | patty | patty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 menu | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 chips | punct |
| 30 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 patty | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 cream | cc |
| 32 | vanilla | vanilla | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 cream | amod |
| 33 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cream | compound |
| 34 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chips | conj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 euros | case |
| 36 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 euros | nummod |
| 37 | euros | euro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 patty | nmod |
| 38 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 euros | flat |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 writes | punct |
| 40 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 writes | nsubj |
| 41 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 frites | conj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 comma | det |
| 43 | comma | comma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 writes | obj |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 writes | advmod |
| 45 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 writes | nsubj |
| 46 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 comma | acl:relcl |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 point | det |
| 48 | decimal | decimal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 point | amod |
| 49 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 writes | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 frites | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a kids's menu | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mince | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | write | present | French | a comma | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comma=Theme | ||||
| 4 | write | present | English | a decimal point | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=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:9.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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