At the café: ordering in French, sentence 16

une glace is an ice cream; Quel parfum ? means "Which flavour?"; parfum means both perfume and flavour; common flavours are vanille, chocolat, fraise and citron.

Who acts: une glace, parfum, common flavours · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: ice cream, flavour, perfume, vanille

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 (une glace, parfum, common flavours), 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	une	une	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glace	compound
2	glace	glace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cream	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cream	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cream	det
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cream	compound
6	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	parataxis
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 parfum	punct
8	Quel	Quel	DET	Number=Sing	9 parfum	compound
9	parfum	parfum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cream	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cream	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 flavour	punct
13	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 flavour	det
14	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 flavour	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 flavour	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
18	parfum	parfum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	nsubj
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	parataxis
20	both	both	CCONJ	_	21 perfume	cc:preconj
21	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flavour	cc
23	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 perfume	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 vanille	punct
25	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flavours	amod
26	flavours	flavour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 vanille	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 vanille	cop
28	vanille	vanille	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 chocolat	punct
30	chocolat	chocolat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 vanille	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fraise	punct
32	fraise	fraise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 vanille	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 citron	cc
34	citron	citron	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 vanille	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cream	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	une glace	a ice cream and Quel parfum	tree rules
2	mean	present		which flavour	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flavour=Topic
3	mean	present	parfum	perfume and flavour	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Topic
4	is a	present	common flavours	vanille and chocolat and fraise and citron	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:16.

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): R6-punct-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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