At the café: ordering in French, sentence 5

To call a waiter politely say Excusez-moi, monsieur ! or S'il vous plaît ! with a small raised hand; shouting garçon (boy) is old-fashioned and rude today.

Who acts: you, shouting garçon · What happens: call, say, raise, shout, be · To what, where: waiter, Excusez · 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 (you, shouting garçon), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 call	mark
2	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 waiter	det
4	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	obj
5	politely	politely	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Excusez	Excusez	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 moi	punct
9	moi	moi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Excusez	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 monsieur	punct
11	monsieur	monsieur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Excusez	appos
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 S'il	cc
14	S'il	S'il	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Excusez	conj
15	vous	vous	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 S'il	flat
16	plaît	plaît	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 S'il	flat
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 hand	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hand	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hand	amod
21	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 hand	amod
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 garçon	punct
24	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 garçon	amod
25	garçon	garçon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fashioned	nsubj
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 boy	punct
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 garçon	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 boy	punct
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fashioned	cop
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fashioned	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 old	punct
32	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rude	cc
34	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fashioned	conj
35	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fashioned	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	to-infinitive	you not said here		a waiter			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent waiter=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	Excusez or S'il			with a small raised hand; politely property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent excusez=Theme with hand=Manner
3	raise	participle						vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	shout speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	shouting garçon			today	fashioned property	tree rules
6	be		shouting garçon not said here					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:5.

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): 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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