At the café: ordering in French, sentence 2

Some orders surprise English speakers: un café is a tiny strong black coffee, une limonade is fizzy, and Quel parfum ? asks which flavour, not which perfume.

Who acts: orders, un café, une limonade, Quel parfum · What happens: surprise, be, ask · To what, where: English speakers, tiny strong black coffee, flavour

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 (orders, un café, une limonade, Quel parfum), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 orders	det
2	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 surprise	nsubj
3	surprise	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speakers	amod
5	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 surprise	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 coffee	punct
7	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 café	compound
8	café	café	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coffee	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 coffee	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coffee	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coffee	amod
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coffee	amod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coffee	amod
14	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 surprise	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fizzy	punct
16	une	une	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 limonade	compound
17	limonade	limonade	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fizzy	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fizzy	cop
19	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coffee	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 asks	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 parfum	cc
22	Quel	Quel	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 parfum	compound
23	parfum	parfum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asks	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 asks	punct
25	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 surprise	conj
26	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	27 flavour	det
27	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asks	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 perfume	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 perfume	advmod
30	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	31 perfume	det
31	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flavour	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	surprise	present	some orders	English speakers		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus speaker=Experiencer
2	is a	present	un café	a tiny strong black coffee		tree rules
3	is	present	une limonade		fizzy property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	present	Quel parfum	which flavour and which perfume		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flavour=Recipient

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:2.

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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