--- title: Some activities use faire de: je fais du vélo (I go cycling), je fai… — Hobbies and sport · tree and pragmatics description: Some activities use faire de: je fais du vélo (I go cycling), je fais de la natation (I go swimming), je fais du judo, je fais du surf; if you don't know the verb for a sport, je fais du + the sport (je fais du skate) is a safe trick. Who acts: activities, I, je, you. A sentence of the lesson «Hobbi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Hobbies and sport](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/) / 7 # Hobbies and sport, sentence 7 Some activities use faire de: je fais du vélo (I go cycling), je fais de la natation (I go swimming), je fais du judo, je fais du surf; if you don't know the verb for a sport, je fais du + the sport (je fais du skate) is a safe trick. **Who acts:** activities, I, je, you, sport · **What happens:** use, faire, go, cycle, swim, not know · **To what, where:** faire de, je, la natation, du judo, du surf, verb This is a sentence of the lesson «Hobbies and sport» of the french 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 (activities, I, je, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:023-hobbies-and-sport.lesson:7 # text = Some activities use faire de: je fais du vélo (I go cycling), je fais de la natation (I go swimming), je fais du judo, je fais du surf; if you don't know the verb for a sport, je fais du + the sport (je fais du skate) is a safe trick. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 023-hobbies-and-sport.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 activities activity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 faire faire X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 5 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 je je X FW Foreign=Yes 8 obl _ _ 8 fais faire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 du du X FW Foreign=Yes 8 obj _ _ 10 vélo vélo X FW Foreign=Yes 9 flat:foreign _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 cycling cycle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 je je X FW Foreign=Yes 18 nsubj _ _ 18 fais faire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 18 dep _ _ 20 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 21 amod _ _ 21 natation natation NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 je je X FW Foreign=Yes 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fais faire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 du du X FW Foreign=Yes 31 amod _ _ 31 judo judo NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 je je X FW Foreign=Yes 34 nsubj _ _ 34 fais faire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 du du X FW Foreign=Yes 36 amod _ _ 36 surf surf NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 38 if if SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 sport sport NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 49 je je X FW Foreign=Yes 50 nsubj _ _ 50 fais faire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 51 du du X FW Foreign=Yes 52 case _ _ 52 + + SYM SYM _ 64 cc _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 sport sport NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 55 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 57 punct _ _ 56 je je X FW Foreign=Yes 57 nsubj _ _ 57 fais faire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 acl:relcl _ _ 58 du du X FW Foreign=Yes 59 amod _ _ 59 skate skate NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 60 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 57 punct _ _ 61 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 cop _ _ 62 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 63 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 65 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=50:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | some activities | faire de | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent de=Patient | | 2 | **faire** | present | | je | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | present | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **cycle** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **faire** | present | je | la natation | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | present | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **swim** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **faire** | present | je | du judo | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **faire** | present | je | du surf | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **not** **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | the verb | | | | for a sport | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer verb=Stimulus | | 11 | **faire** | present | je | | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **faire** | present | je | du skate | | | | | tree rules | | 13 | **is a** | present | the sport | a safe trick | | | | | tree rules | 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:023-hobbies-and-sport.lesson:7`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Hobbies and sport, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/6/) - next →: [Hobbies and sport, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/)