Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 15
In France people usually wait until everyone is served and someone says Bon appétit ! before starting to eat.
Who acts: people, someone · What happens: wait, serve, say, start, eat · To what, where: France, everyone, Bon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tu or vous? Manners 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 (people, someone), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 2 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 served | mark |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 served | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 served | aux:pass |
| 9 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wait | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 says | cc |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | conj |
| 13 | Bon | Bon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | appétit | appétit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bon | flat |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Bon | punct |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 starting | mark |
| 17 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 says | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 starting | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | people | France | usually property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | serve | present · passive | everyone | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | someone | Bon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bon=Topic | ||||
| 4 | start | gerund | someone not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | someone not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:005-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french.lesson:15.
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): R5-strong ×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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