--- title: Alouette means a lark; je te plumerai means "I will pluck your feath… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics description: Alouette means a lark; je te plumerai means "I will pluck your feathers", and each verse adds a body part: la tête, le bec, le cou, le dos. Who acts: Alouette, je, child, verse. 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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 (Alouette, je, child, verse), 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:6 # text = Alouette means a lark; je te plumerai means "I will pluck your feathers", and each verse adds a body part: la tête, le bec, le cou, le dos. # 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): no change 1 Alouette Alouette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lark lark NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 je je X FW Foreign=Yes 9 nsubj _ _ 7 te te X GW _ 6 flat _ _ 8 plumerai plumerai X FW Foreign=Yes 6 flat:foreign _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 verse verse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 la la X GW _ 24 nmod _ _ 27 tête tête X NN _ 26 goeswith _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 bec bec X NN _ 26 flat _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 cou cou NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 dos dos NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Alouette | a lark | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lark=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | je | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pluck** *in a quote* | future | child | your feathers | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | each verse | a body part la | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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:031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson:6`. **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): no change. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/5/) - next →: [Songs and rhymes, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/)