--- title: Picture yourself lost in a little town in Normandy: you ask "Où est… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics description: Picture yourself lost in a little town in Normandy: you ask "Où est la poste ?", a lady says "Tout droit, puis la deuxième rue à droite, à côté de l'église", and you count the streets on your fingers as you walk. Who acts: you, lady. 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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 (you, lady), 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:2 # text = Picture yourself lost in a little town in Normandy: you ask "Où est la poste ?", a lady says "Tout droit, puis la deuxième rue à droite, à côté de l'église", and you count the streets on your fingers as you walk. # 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 ×3 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 1 obj _ _ 3 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 xcomp _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Normandy Normandy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 Où Où X FW Foreign=Yes 12 obj _ _ 15 est EST X FW Foreign=Yes 14 flat:foreign _ _ 16 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 14 flat:foreign _ _ 17 poste poste X FW Foreign=Yes 14 flat:foreign _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 Tout tout X FW Foreign=Yes 26 flat:foreign _ _ 26 droit droit X FW Foreign=Yes 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 puis puis NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 la la X GW ExtPos=PROPN 26 appos _ _ 30 deuxième deuxième ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 rue rue X NN _ 29 flat _ _ 32 à à ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 droite droite NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 à à ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 côté côté NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 37 de de ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 l'église l'église NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:nmod 49 as as SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 50 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **lose** | participle | you *not said here* | | | a little town in Normandy | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in town=Eventuality | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | Où | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent où=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a lady | Tout droit and puis and côté de l'église | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent droit=Topic | | 5 | **count** | present | you | the streets | | your fingers | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme | | 6 | **walk** | present | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The town and directions, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/1/) - next →: [The town and directions, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/)