At the café: ordering in French, sentence 10
L'addition, s'il vous plaît ! means "The bill, please!"; French waiters usually wait until you ask for it.
Who acts: L'addition, French waiters, you · What happens: mean, wait, ask · To what, where: bill
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 (L'addition, French waiters, 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 | L'addition | L'addition | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plaît | punct |
| 3 | s'il | s'il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 plaît | compound |
| 4 | vous | vous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plaît | amod |
| 5 | plaît | plaît | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 L'addition | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 L'addition | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bill | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bill | det |
| 10 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 please | punct |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 10 bill | discourse |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 bill | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bill | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 wait | punct |
| 16 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 waiters | amod |
| 17 | waiters | waiter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wait | nsubj |
| 18 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 19 wait | advmod |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 ask | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 ask | nsubj |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wait | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ask | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | L'addition | the bill | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait | present | French waiters | usually property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | you | for bill | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:10.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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