--- title: J'achète un livre sur les chevaux." means on Saturday she goes to th… — Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: J'achète un livre sur les chevaux." means on Saturday she goes to the bookshop with her dad and buys a book about horses. Who acts: J'achète, arrivée. 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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 (J'achète, arrivée), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:22 # text = J'achète un livre sur les chevaux." means on Saturday she goes to the bookshop with her dad and buys a book about horses. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.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 1 J'achète j'achète X FW Foreign=Yes 9 nsubj _ _ 2 un un X FW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 livre livre X FW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 sur sur X FW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 5 les le X FW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 6 chevaux chevaux X FW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 7 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bookshop bookshop NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 buys buy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | J'achète | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | arrivée | | | the bookshop | saturday | with arrivée's dad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bookshop=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **buy** *in a quote* | present | arrivée *not said here* | a book | | | | about horses | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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. 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