Food and drink, sentence 11

les escargots are snails cooked in garlic butter, a famous dish many French children eat only on special occasions; Non merci is a polite way to say no.

Who acts: escargots, many French children · What happens: be, cook, eat, say · To what, where: snails, famous dish, special occasions, Non polite way, no. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and drink» 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 (escargots, many French children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	les	le	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 escargots	det
2	escargots	escargot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 snails	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 snails	cop
4	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 snails	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 butter	case
7	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 butter	compound
8	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dish	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dish	det
11	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dish	amod
12	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snails	conj
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
14	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	nsubj
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dish	acl:relcl
17	only	only	ADV	_	20 occasions	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 occasions	case
19	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 occasions	amod
20	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 Non	punct
22	Non	non	ADV	_	27 way	compound
23	merci	merci	X	_	22 Non	goeswith
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 way	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 way	det
26	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snails	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 way	acl
30	no.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	29 say	obj

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	le escargots	snails and a famous dish			tree rules
2	cook	participle		snails and a famous dish not said here		in garlic butter	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in butter=Instrument
3	eat	present	many French children	a famous dish not said here	special occasions		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient
4	is a	present		a Non polite way			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	le escargots not said here	no.			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic

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, 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:018-food-and-drink.lesson:11.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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