--- title: Picture a French classroom on a rainy afternoon: half the class sing… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a French classroom on a rainy afternoon: half the class sings "Frère Jacques, frère Jacques, dormez-vous ?" and the other half starts a moment later, so the song chases itself round the room as a round. Who acts: you, class, other half, song. 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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, class, other half, song), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson:2 # text = Picture a French classroom on a rainy afternoon: half the class sings "Frère Jacques, frère Jacques, dormez-vous ?" and the other half starts a moment later, so the song chases itself round the room as a round. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 031-songs-and-rhymes.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 classroom classroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 Frère Frère PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Jacques Jacques PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 frère frère X FW _ 16 flat:foreign _ _ 19 Jacques Jacques PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 21 dormez dormez X FW _ 23 flat:foreign _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 vous vous X FW _ 13 conj _ _ 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 30 nsubj _ _ 30 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl:unmarked 33 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 chases chase VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 39 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obj _ _ 40 round round ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 as as ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 round round NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nmod 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a French classroom | | | afternoon | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent classroom=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | half class | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **start** | present | the other half | | | | | late *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **chase** | present | the song | half | | the room | | as a round | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Theme round room=Trajectory | 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:031-songs-and-rhymes.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Songs and rhymes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/1/) - next →: [Songs and rhymes, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/)