Hello and goodbye: greetings, sentence 12

La bise is a light greeting with cheeks touching and a kiss in the air; two is common in Paris, while some regions do one, three or even four.

Who acts: bise, cheeks, two, regions · What happens: be, touch, do · To what, where: light greeting, Paris, one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: greetings» 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 (bise, cheeks, two, regions), 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	La	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bise	det
2	bise	bise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greeting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 greeting	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 greeting	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greeting	amod
6	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	SCONJ	_	9 touching	mark
8	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 touching	nsubj
9	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 greeting	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kiss	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kiss	det
12	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touching	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kiss	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 common	punct
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 common	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 common	cop
19	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 greeting	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Paris	case
21	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 common	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 do	mark
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 regions	det
25	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 do	nsubj
26	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 common	advcl
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 do	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 three	punct
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 one	conj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 four	cc
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 four	advmod
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 one	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 greeting	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	la bise	a light greeting			tree rules
2	touch	gerund	cheeks				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	two		Paris	common property	tree rules
4	do	present	some regions	one			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

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:004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.lesson:12.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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