French compared with English, sentence 3

Watch out for false friends, words that look English but mean something else: ask a French baker for "pain" and you get bread, not hurt.

Who acts: you, words · What happens: watch out, look, mean, ask, get, not hurt · To what, where: something, French baker, bread

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 (you, words), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Watch	compound:prt
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 friends	case
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 words	punct
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 friends	appos
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 words	acl:relcl
10	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 mean	cc
12	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 look	conj
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 mean	obj
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 something	advmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct
16	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 baker	det
18	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 baker	amod
19	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ask	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 pain	case
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 pain	punct
22	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ask	obl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 pain	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 get	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 get	nsubj
26	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
27	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 get	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hurt	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 hurt	advmod
30	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	watch out	imperative	you not said here		for false friends	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for friend=Theme
2	look	present	words		english property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	mean	present	words not said here	something		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive		a French baker	for pain	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baker=Recipient
5	get	present	you	bread		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus
6	not hurt	infinitive	you not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:3.

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 ×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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