Numbers 0 to 20, sentence 4

Picture a bakery in Lyon: hold up your thumb and pointing finger and the baker gives you two croissants, because the French start counting on the thumb.

Who acts: you, baker, French · What happens: picture, hold up, give, start, count · To what, where: bakery, Lyon, thumb, two croissants, you

This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers 0 to 20» 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, baker, French), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bakery	det
3	bakery	bakery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Lyon	case
5	Lyon	lyon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bakery	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 hold	punct
7	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 hold	compound:prt
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 thumb	nmod:poss
10	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 finger	cc
12	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finger	compound
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thumb	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gives	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 baker	det
16	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gives	nsubj
17	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 gives	iobj
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 croissants	nummod
20	croissants	croissant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gives	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 counting	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 start	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 French	det
24	French	French	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 start	nsubj
25	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gives	advcl
26	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 start	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 thumb	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thumb	det
29	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 counting	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a bakery		Lyon		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bakery=Theme
2	hold up	infinitive		your thumb and pointing finger				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thumb=Theme
3	give	present	the baker	two croissants	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient croissant=Theme
4	start	present	the French					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	count	gerund	the French not said here				on the thumb	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on thumb=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:006-numbers-0-to-20.lesson:4.

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, 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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