At the café: ordering in French, sentence 1

Never click your fingers or shout "Garçon!" as in old films: today that is rude; catch the waiter's eye, smile and say S'il vous plaît, monsieur ! or Excusez-moi !

Who acts: you, today, S'il · What happens: not click, shout, be, catch, smile, say · To what, where: fingers, Garçon, eye, moi · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, today, S'il), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 click	advmod
2	click	click	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fingers	nmod:poss
4	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 click	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 shout	cc
6	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 click	conj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Garçon	punct
8	Garçon	Garçon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shout	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Garçon	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Garçon	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 films	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 films	case
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 films	amod
14	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 click	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 today	punct
16	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 films	appos
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 rude	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 rude	cop
19	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 today	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 catch	punct
21	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 click	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 waiter	det
23	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eye	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 waiter	case
25	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 catch	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 smile	punct
27	smile	smile	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 catch	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 smile	conj
30	S'il	S'il	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 say	obj
31	vous	vous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 plaît	flat:foreign
32	plaît	plaît	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 S'il	flat:foreign
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 monsieur	punct
34	monsieur	monsieur	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 S'il	appos
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 S'il	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 Excusez	cc
37	Excusez	Excusez	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 say	conj
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 moi	punct
39	moi	moi	PRON	Number=Sing	37 Excusez	obj
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 click	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not click	imperative	you not said here	your fingers	as old films	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme
2	shout speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	Garçon		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garçon=Topic
3	is	present	today		rude property	tree rules
4	catch	infinitive		the waiter's eye		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
5	smile	infinitive				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	infinitive	S'il			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	excusez	infinitive	S'il not said here	moi		tree rules

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:1.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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