At the café: ordering in French, sentence 4
Even if the waiter speaks English, trying your French first is polite, and most waiters will happily help you.
Who acts: waiter, trying, most waiters · What happens: speak, try, be, help · To what, where: English, French, you · 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 (waiter, trying, most waiters), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 speaks | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 speaks | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 waiter | det |
| 4 | waiter | waiter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaks | nsubj |
| 5 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 polite | advcl |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 speaks | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 polite | csubj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 French | nmod:poss |
| 10 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 trying | obj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 trying | advmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 polite | cop |
| 13 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 help | cc |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 waiters | amod |
| 17 | waiters | waiter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 help | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | aux |
| 19 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 20 help | advmod |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 polite | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 polite | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present | the waiter | English | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | your French | first property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | trying | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | future | most waiters | you | happily property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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:4.
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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