--- title: Sur le pont d'Avignon: le pont is the bridge, on y danse means "peop… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics description: Sur le pont d'Avignon: le pont is the bridge, on y danse means "people dance there" and tous en rond means "all in a circle"; the real bridge has only four arches left and stops in the middle of the river. Who acts: le pont, bridge, people, tous en rond. 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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 (le pont, bridge, people, tous en rond), 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:7 # text = Sur le pont d'Avignon: le pont is the bridge, on y danse means "people dance there" and tous en rond means "all in a circle"; the real bridge has only four arches left and stops in the middle of the river. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sur sur ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pont pont NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 d'Avignon d'Avignon X FW Foreign=Yes 3 dep _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 pont pont NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 y y X FW Foreign=Yes 14 dep _ _ 14 danse danse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound 18 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 tous tous X FW Foreign=Yes 24 amod _ _ 23 en en X FW Foreign=Yes 24 compound _ _ 24 rond rond NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 arches arch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:nmod 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | le pont and le pont | the bridge | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | the bridge | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **dance** *in a quote* | present | people | | | there | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | tous en rond | all circle | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Topic | | 5 | **have** | present | the real bridge | four arches | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arch=Patient | | 6 | **leave** | participle | | four arches *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **stop** | present | the real bridge *not said here* | | | the middle of the river | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | 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: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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/6/) - next →: [Songs and rhymes, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/)