--- title: Getting around a French town needs only a handful of words: tout dro… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics description: Getting around a French town needs only a handful of words: tout droit (straight on), à gauche (left), à droite (right), and the names of the shops and buildings you are looking for. Who acts: Getting, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Getting, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:022-the-town-and-directions.lesson:0 # text = Getting around a French town needs only a handful of words: tout droit (straight on), à gauche (left), à droite (right), and the names of the shops and buildings you are looking for. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 022-the-town-and-directions.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 2 around around ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj 6 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 tout tout NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 droit droit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 straight straight NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 16 nmod _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 à à ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 gauche gauche ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 à à ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 droite droite NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 29 right right ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 acl:relcl _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 42 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get around** | gerund | | a French town | | | | around *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **need** | present | Getting | a handful of words | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot handful=Theme | | 3 | **look** | present · progressive | you | the shops and buildings *not said here* | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Attribute | | 4 | **name** | | | the shops and buildings | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:022-the-town-and-directions.lesson:0`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [My house and my home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/21-my-house-and-my-home/16/) - next →: [The town and directions, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/)