--- title: les escargots are snails cooked in garlic butter, a famous dish many… — Food and drink · tree and pragmatics description: les escargots are snails cooked in garlic butter, a famous dish many French children eat only on special occasions; Non merci is a polite way to say no. Who acts: escargots, many French children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (escargots, many French children), 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:11 # text = les escargots are snails cooked in garlic butter, a famous dish many French children eat only on special occasions; Non merci is a polite way to say no. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 les le DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 escargots escargot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 cooked cook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 garlic garlic NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 occasions occasion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Non non ADV AFX _ 27 compound _ _ 23 merci merci X NN _ 22 goeswith _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 no. no. NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | le escargots | snails and a famous dish | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cook** | participle | | snails and a famous dish *not said here* | | | | in garlic butter | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in butter=Instrument | | 3 | **eat** | present | many French children | a famous dish *not said here* | | special occasions | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a Non polite way | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | le escargots *not said here* | no. | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:018-food-and-drink.lesson:11`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Food and drink, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/18-food-and-drink/10/) - next →: [Food and drink, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/18-food-and-drink/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/18-food-and-drink/)