Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 2
Picture Archie at the school gate saying "Salut, tu vas bien ?" to his French teacher: it sounds as cheeky as calling her "mate".
Who acts: you, gate · What happens: picture, say, sound, call · To what, where: Archie, school gate, French teacher, vous · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tu or vous? Manners in French» 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, gate), 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 | Archie | Archie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 gate | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gate | compound |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Archie | nmod |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Picture | advcl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Salut | punct |
| 9 | Salut | salut | INTJ | _ | 7 saying | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 vas | punct |
| 11 | tu | tu | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Salut | flat:foreign |
| 12 | vas | vas | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Salut | flat:foreign |
| 13 | bien | bien | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Salut | flat:foreign |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 Salut | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Salut | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 teacher | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 18 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 teacher | amod |
| 19 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saying | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 sounds | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sounds | nsubj |
| 22 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 cheeky | advmod |
| 24 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sounds | xcomp |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 calling | mark |
| 26 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 cheeky | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 calling | obj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 mate | punct |
| 29 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 calling | obj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 mate | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=other, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Archie | the school gate | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent archie=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | Archie's French teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent salut=Topic to teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | gate | cheeky property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | gate not said here | vous | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme mate=Result |
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:005-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french.lesson:2.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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