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title: Food names often hide a little story: pain perdu, "lost bread", is F… — Food and drink · tree and pragmatics
description: Food names often hide a little story: pain perdu, "lost bread", is French toast, made from old bread that is saved instead of thrown away. Who acts: Food names. 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 ever
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# Food and drink, sentence 4

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Food names often hide a little story: pain perdu, "lost bread", is French toast, made from old bread that is saved instead of thrown away.

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**Who acts:** Food names · **What happens:** hide, lose, be, make, save, throw away · **To what, where:** little story, French toast, old bread

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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 (Food names), 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:4
# text = Food names often hide a little story: pain perdu, "lost bread", is French toast, made from old bread that is saved instead of thrown away.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	perdu	perdu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	30	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **hide** | present | Food names | a little story |  |  |  | pain perdu *obl*; often *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | French toast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | French toast *not said here* |  | old bread |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from bread=Material |
| 5 | **save** | present · passive |  | old bread |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **throw away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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: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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/).

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