--- title: Picture a lamppost in Dieppe with a poster: "Perdu : petit chat noir… — Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a lamppost in Dieppe with a poster: "Perdu : petit chat noir, yeux verts." The first word is the key - perdu means lost - so this is someone looking for their cat, not selling one. Who acts: you, yeux, first word, perdu. 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The first word is the key - perdu means lost - so this is someone looking for their cat, not selling one. **Who acts:** you, yeux, first word, perdu, this, someone · **What happens:** picture, vert, be, mean, lose, look · **To what, where:** lamppost, Dieppe, Perdu, key, someone, one This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» 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 (you, yeux, first word, perdu), 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:3 # text = Picture a lamppost in Dieppe with a poster: "Perdu : petit chat noir, yeux verts." The first word is the key - perdu means lost - so this is someone looking for their cat, not selling one. # 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, R7-rel-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 3 det _ _ 3 lamppost lamppost NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Dieppe Dieppe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 poster poster NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Perdu Perdu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 petit petit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 noir noir NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 yeux yeux NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 verts vert VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 21 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 23 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 perdu perdu NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 30 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 xcomp _ _ 31 - - PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 33 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 42 nsubj _ _ 36 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 selling sell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 43 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 obj _ _ 44 . . 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 lamppost | | Dieppe | | with a poster | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lamppost=Theme | | 2 | **vert** *in a quote* | present | yeux | Perdu *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the first word | the key | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | perdu | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **lose** *not said to happen* | participle | perdu *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | this | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | for words's cat | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cat=Theme | | 8 | **not** **sell** | gerund | someone | one | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:french:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:3`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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. 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