Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, sentence 15

Swapping the colours in un chat noir and une souris blanche gives un chat blanc and une souris noire: each colour changes to match its noun.

Who acts: Swapping, colour · What happens: swap, give, change, match · To what, where: colours, chat noir, chat blanc, noun

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: who acts (Swapping, colour), 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	Swapping	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 gives	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colours	det
3	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Swapping	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 noir	case
5	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	6 chat	compound
6	chat	chat	X	Foreign=Yes	7 noir	compound
7	noir	noir	X	Foreign=Yes	3 colours	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gives	cc
9	une	une	X	Foreign=Yes	11 blanche	dep
10	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	11 blanche	compound
11	blanche	blanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noir	conj
12	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	14 chat	compound
14	chat	chat	X	Foreign=Yes	15 blanc	compound
15	blanc	blanc	X	Foreign=Yes	12 gives	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 noire	cc
17	une	une	X	Foreign=Yes	19 noire	dep
18	souris	souris	X	Foreign=Yes	19 noire	compound
19	noire	noire	X	Foreign=Yes	15 blanc	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 changes	punct
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 colour	det
22	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 changes	nsubj
23	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gives	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 match	mark
25	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 changes	advcl
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 noun	nmod:poss
27	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 match	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swap	gerund		the colours	chat noir and souris blanche	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme
2	give	present	Swapping	chat blanc		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanc=Theme
3	change	present	each colour			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	match	to-infinitive	each colour not said here	blanche's noun		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=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:15.

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 ×3, 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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