At the café: ordering in French, sentence 13
des frites et un Coca means chips and a cola; starting with bonjour and trying French is always welcome.
Who acts: frites · What happens: mean, start, try, be · To what, where: chips, French
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 (frites), 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 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 frites | det |
| 2 | frites | frite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 5 Coca | cc |
| 4 | un | un | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Coca | det |
| 5 | Coca | coca | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 frites | conj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cola | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cola | det |
| 10 | cola | cola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chips | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 starting | punct |
| 12 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 bonjour | case |
| 14 | bonjour | bonjour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 starting | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 trying | cc |
| 16 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 starting | conj |
| 17 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 trying | obj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 welcome | cop |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 welcome | advmod |
| 20 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trying | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | des frites et un Coca | chips and a cola | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Topic | ||||
| 2 | start | gerund | with bonjour | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with bonjour=Subeventuality | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | French | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is | present | always, welcome property | 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:13.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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