Numbers 21 to 69, sentence 4

For your age, French uses "have", not "be": j'ai neuf ans means "I am nine", but word for word "I have nine years".

Who acts: French, j'ai, I · What happens: use, have, mean, be · To what, where: word, nine · 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 (French, j'ai, I), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 age	case
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 age	nmod:poss
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 uses	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 age	punct
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 uses	nsubj
6	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 uses	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 "	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 "	advmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 be	punct
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 "	cop
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
16	j'ai	j'ai	X	Foreign=Yes	19 means	nsubj
17	neuf	neuf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ans	amod
18	ans	an	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 j'ai	flat
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 uses	parataxis
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 nine	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 nine	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 nine	cop
23	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 means	ccomp
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 nine	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 word	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 word	cc
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 word	case
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 word	nmod
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 word	parataxis
33	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 years	nummod
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 have	obj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 years	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 uses	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	use	present	French		for your age	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have in a quote	present				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	j'ai	word for word		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	I	nine		tree rules
5	have in a quote	present	I		year	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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