French compared with English, sentence 1
But French does some things its own way: Zoe learns "la table" is feminine and "le livre" is masculine, and wonders if tables wear dresses; they don't, it's just a grammar label.
Who acts: French, Zoe, tables, dresses, table · What happens: do, learn, be, wonder, wear, not do · To what, where: things, la table, dresses, grammar label · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the language 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, Zoe, tables, dresses), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 does | cc |
| 2 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 things | det |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 10 | Zoe | Zoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 learns | nsubj |
| 11 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | parataxis |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 table | punct |
| 13 | la | la | X | _ | 14 table | compound |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 learns | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 table | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 feminine | cop |
| 17 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 learns | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 masculine | cc |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 livre | punct |
| 20 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 livre | compound |
| 21 | livre | livre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 masculine | compound |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 livre | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 masculine | cop |
| 24 | masculine | masculine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feminine | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wonders | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wonders | cc |
| 27 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 learns | conj |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 wear | mark |
| 29 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wear | nsubj |
| 30 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 wonders | ccomp |
| 31 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wear | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 do | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 do | nsubj |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | parataxis |
| 35 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 do | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 label | punct |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 label | nsubj |
| 38 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 label | cop |
| 39 | just | just | ADV | _ | 42 label | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 label | det |
| 41 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 label | compound |
| 42 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 do | parataxis |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | French | some things | neighbour's own way obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | learn | present | Zoe | la table | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | feminine property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | masculine property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | present | Zoe not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | wear a condition, not said to happen | present | tables | dresses | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not do | present | dresses = dress | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a | present | table | a grammar label | 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:language:035-french-compared-with-english.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.
See the release 0.4.
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