Numbers 21 to 69, sentence 13
Combien ? means "how many?" or "how much?"; Tu as combien de bonbons ? means "How many sweets have you got?" and wants a number for an answer.
Who acts: Combien, Tu, you · What happens: mean, get, want · To what, where: many, many sweets, number · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers 21 to 69» 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 (Combien, Tu, you), 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 | Combien | Combien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Combien | punct |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 many | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 many | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 many | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 much | cc |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 much | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 many | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 much | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 much | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 16 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 bonbons | case |
| 18 | combien | combien | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bonbons | amod |
| 19 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 bonbons | flat:foreign |
| 20 | bonbons | bonbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Tu | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tu | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | parataxis |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 got | punct |
| 24 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 many | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sweets | amod |
| 26 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 got | obj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 got | aux |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 got | nsubj |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 means | ccomp |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 got | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 got | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wants | cc |
| 33 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 means | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 number | det |
| 35 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wants | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 answer | case |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 answer | det |
| 38 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 number | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Combien | many | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Tu as combien de bonbons | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | many sweets | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweet=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | want | present | Tu as combien de bonbons not said here | a number | for a answer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot number=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:007-numbers-21-to-69.lesson:13.
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 ×3. 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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