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title: des frites are chips (French fries) and des chips are crisps. — Food and drink · tree and pragmatics
description: des frites are chips (French fries) and des chips are crisps. Who acts: frites, chips. 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 every clause.
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# Food and drink, sentence 7

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des frites are chips (French fries) and des chips are crisps.

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**Who acts:** frites, chips · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** chips, crisps

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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 (frites, chips), 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:7
# text = des frites are chips (French fries) and des chips are crisps.
# 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 ×1
1	des	de	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|Foreign=Yes|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frites	frite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
6	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fries	fry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	des	de	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|Foreign=Yes|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | de frites | chips and crisps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | de chips | crisps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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