French compared with English, sentence 12

In Quebec, in Canada, "C'est l'fun!" means "It's fun!"; Quebec French has its own words, accents and expressions, like the different kinds of English.

Who acts: l'fun, Quebec French · What happens: mean, be, have, word · To what, where: fun, own words · 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 (l'fun, Quebec French), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Quebec	case
2	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 means	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Canada	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Canada	case
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Quebec	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Quebec	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 l'fun	punct
8	C'est	c'est	X	Foreign=Yes	9 l'fun	dep
9	l'fun	l'fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Quebec	list
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 l'fun	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 l'fun	punct
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 fun	punct
14	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fun	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fun	cop
16	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 means	ccomp
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 fun	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 fun	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
20	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 French	compound
21	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	parataxis
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 words	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 words	amod
25	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 has	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 accents	punct
27	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 words	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 expressions	cc
29	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 words	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kinds	punct
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 kinds	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kinds	det
33	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 kinds	amod
34	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 words	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 English	case
36	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 kinds	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			in Quebec in Canada	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in quebec=Attribute
2	is a in a quote	present	l'fun	fun		tree rules
3	have	present	Quebec French	l'fun's own words and accents and expressions	like the different kinds of English	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
4	word		l'fun		like the different kinds of English	nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl

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:12.

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 ×3, 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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