Colours, sentence 14
gris ("GREE") means grey, not green; the s is silent; with a feminine noun it is grise ("GREEZ"); green is vert.
Who acts: gris, s, green · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: grey, grise
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 (gris, s, green), 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 | gris | gris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 GREE | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 GREE | punct |
| 4 | GREE | GREE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 gris | appos |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 GREE | punct |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 GREE | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 green | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 green | advmod |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grey | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 silent | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 s | det |
| 14 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 silent | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 silent | cop |
| 16 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 vert | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 noun | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 noun | det |
| 20 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 noun | amod |
| 21 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 vert | obl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 grise | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 grise | cop |
| 24 | grise | grise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 noun | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 GREEZ | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 GREEZ | punct |
| 27 | GREEZ | GREEZ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 grise | parataxis |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 GREEZ | punct |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 GREEZ | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 noun | punct |
| 31 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 vert | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 vert | cop |
| 33 | vert | vert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | gris | grey | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grey=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the s | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | s | grise | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | green | with a feminine noun and grise; vert property | tree rules |
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:14.
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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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