Colours, sentence 1

Colours also change their spelling to match the thing: a green jumper is un pull vert, but a green skirt is une jupe verte, because jupe is a feminine word.

Who acts: Colours, green jumper, green skirt, jupe · What happens: change, match, be, spell · To what, where: spelling, thing, une jupe, feminine word

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 (Colours, green jumper, green skirt, jupe), 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	Colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 change	advmod
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 spelling	nmod:poss
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 match	mark
7	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 change	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 match	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 jumper	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jumper	amod
13	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vert	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 vert	cop
15	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jumper	flat:foreign
16	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jumper	flat:foreign
17	vert	vert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 change	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 jupe	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 jupe	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 skirt	det
21	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 skirt	amod
22	skirt	skirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 jupe	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 jupe	cop
24	une	une	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 jupe	amod
25	jupe	jupe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vert	conj
26	verte	verte	X	Foreign=Yes	25 jupe	flat:foreign
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 word	punct
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 word	mark
29	jupe	jupe	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 word	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 word	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 word	det
32	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 word	amod
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vert	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	present	Colours	colours's spelling		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient
2	match	to-infinitive	Colours not said here	the thing		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
3	is	present	a green jumper		vert property	tree rules
4	is a	present	a green skirt	une jupe		tree rules
5	is a	present	jupe	a feminine word		tree rules
6	spell		colours = colour			nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=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:009-colours.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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