Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, sentence 12

A silent s or x is said as z only before a vowel sound: "Nous avons six oranges" has 2 z sounds, nous_avons and six_oranges.

What happens: say, have · To what, where: silent s, 2 z sounds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» 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: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 s	det
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 s	amod
3	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj:pass
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 x	cc
5	x	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 s	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux:pass
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 z	case
9	z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
10	only	only	ADV	_	14 sound	advmod
11	before	before	ADP	_	14 sound	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sound	det
13	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sound	compound
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 avons	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 avons	punct
17	Nous	Nous	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 avons	compound
18	avons	avon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sound	appos
19	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 oranges	nummod
20	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 avons	conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 avons	punct
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
23	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 sounds	nummod
24	z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounds	compound
25	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 has	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nous	punct
27	nous	nous	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounds	conj
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 avons	punct
29	avons	avon	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sounds	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 oranges	cc
31	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 oranges	nummod
32	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 oranges	amod
33	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sounds	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		a silent s or x			before a vowel sound	as z	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	have	present		2 z sounds and nous and avons and six _ oranges					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient

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:040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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