At the café: ordering in French, sentence 0
A French café visit has a little script: bonjour when you sit down, je voudrais... s'il vous plaît to order, merci when you are served, l'addition, s'il vous plaît when you want to pay, and au revoir, bonne journée as you leave.
Who acts: French café visit, you · What happens: have, sit down, je, order, serve, want · To what, where: little script, voudrais, you, au revoir
This is a sentence of the lesson «At the café: ordering in French» 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 (French café visit, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 visit | det |
| 2 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 visit | amod |
| 3 | café | café | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 visit | compound |
| 4 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 script | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 script | amod |
| 8 | script | script | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 bonjour | punct |
| 10 | bonjour | bonjour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 script | conj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 sit | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sit | nsubj |
| 13 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bonjour | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 sit | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sit | punct |
| 16 | je | je | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 has | conj |
| 17 | voudrais | voudrais | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 je | obj |
| 18 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 21 plaît | punct |
| 19 | s'il | s'il | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plaît | compound |
| 20 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plaît | amod |
| 21 | plaît | plaît | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voudrais | appos |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 order | mark |
| 23 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 plaît | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 merci | punct |
| 25 | merci | merci | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voudrais | conj |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 served | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 served | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 served | aux:pass |
| 29 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 merci | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 l'addition | punct |
| 31 | l'addition | l'addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 served | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 plaît | punct |
| 33 | s'il | s'il | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 plaît | compound |
| 34 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 plaît | amod |
| 35 | plaît | plaît | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 l'addition | conj |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 want | advmod |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 want | nsubj |
| 38 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 served | advcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 pay | mark |
| 40 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 want | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 revoir | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 revoir | cc |
| 43 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 revoir | compound |
| 44 | revoir | revoir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pay | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 journée | punct |
| 46 | bonne | bonne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 journée | compound |
| 47 | journée | journée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 revoir | conj |
| 48 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 50 leave | mark |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 leave | nsubj |
| 50 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 pay | advcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a French café visit | a little script and bonjour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent script=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sit down | present | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | je | infinitive | a French café visit not said here | voudrais and merci | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | order | to-infinitive | a French café visit not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | serve | present · passive | you | l'addition and s'il vous plaît obl | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | au revoir and bonne journée | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | leave | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:019-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french.lesson:0.
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.
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