Colours, sentence 8
bleu means blue and is said "BLUH" with rounded lips, not "bloo"; bleue sounds the same.
Who acts: bleu, bleue · What happens: mean, say, sound · To what, where: blue, same · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bleu, bleue), 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 | bleu | bleu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | conj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 BLUH | punct |
| 8 | BLUH | bluh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | xcomp |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 BLUH | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 lips | case |
| 11 | rounded | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lips | amod |
| 12 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bloo | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 bloo | advmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bloo | punct |
| 16 | bloo | bloo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lips | appos |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bloo | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sounds | punct |
| 19 | bleue | bleue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sounds | nsubj |
| 20 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 same | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sounds | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | bleu | blue | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blue=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | bleu not said here | with rounded lips | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: with lip=Manner | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | bleue | the same | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=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:009-colours.lesson:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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