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title: French food words almost never stand alone: you like le pain (bread… — Food and drink · tree and pragmatics
description: French food words almost never stand alone: you like le pain (bread in general), but at the shop you ask for du pain (some bread). Who acts: French food words, you. A sentence of the lesson «Food and drink» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Food and drink, sentence 0

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French food words almost never stand alone: you like le pain (bread in general), but at the shop you ask for du pain (some bread).

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**Who acts:** French food words, you · **What happens:** not stand, like, ask · **To what, where:** le pain, shop

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and drink» 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 (French food words, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:018-food-and-drink.lesson:0
# text = French food words almost never stand alone: you like le pain (bread in general), but at the shop you ask for du pain (some bread).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 018-food-and-drink.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	du	du	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:amod
27	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | present | French food words |  |  |  |  | almost, alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **like** | present | you | le pain |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pain=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you |  |  | the shop |  | for du pain | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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