Colours, sentence 0

French colours sit behind the thing they describe, so a red ball is un ballon rouge, "a ball red", like a label stuck on after the name.

Who acts: French colours, colours, red ball · What happens: sit, describe, be, stick on · To what, where: thing, ballon rouge, label

This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours» 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 colours, colours, red ball), 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	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 colours	amod
2	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sit	nsubj
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 thing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 describe	nsubj
8	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rouge	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	17 rouge	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ball	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ball	amod
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rouge	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 rouge	cop
15	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ballon	compound
16	ballon	ballon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rouge	compound
17	rouge	rouge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rouge	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 red	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 red	det
21	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 red	compound
22	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 red	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 label	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 label	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 label	det
27	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
28	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 label	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	28 stuck	compound:prt
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 name	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 name	det
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuck	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	French colours		the thing		like a label	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind thing=Location
2	describe	present	colours = colour	the thing not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	is a	present	a red ball	ballon rouge				tree rules
4	stick on	participle		a label not said here		after the name		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:009-colours.lesson:0.

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, R6-punct-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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