French compared with English, sentence 10
Many French endings are written but not said: "ils parlent" (they speak) sounds like "eel parl".
Who acts: endings · What happens: write, not say, speak, sound · To what, where: Many French endings · 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 (endings), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 endings | amod |
| 2 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 endings | amod |
| 3 | endings | ending | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | aux:pass |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 said | advmod |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 written | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 parlent | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 parlent | punct |
| 11 | ils | il | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 parlent | compound |
| 12 | parlent | parlent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 parlent | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 speak | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 speak | nsubj |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | conj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 speak | punct |
| 18 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 speak | ccomp |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 parl | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 parl | punct |
| 21 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 parl | compound |
| 22 | parl | parl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | obl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 parl | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · passive | Many French endings | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | endings = ending | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sound | present | like eel parl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:10.
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): R6-punct-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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