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title: A French café visit has a little script: bonjour when you sit down,… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: A French café visit has a little script: bonjour when you sit down, je voudrais... s'il vous plaît to order, merci when you are served, l'addition, s'il vous plaît when you want to pay, and au revoir, bonne journée as you leave. Who acts: French café visit, you. A sentence of the lesson «At the café
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# At the café: ordering in French, sentence 0

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A French café visit has a little script: bonjour when you sit down, je voudrais... s'il vous plaît to order, merci when you are served, l'addition, s'il vous plaît when you want to pay, and au revoir, bonne journée as you leave.

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**Who acts:** French café visit, you · **What happens:** have, sit down, je, order, serve, want · **To what, where:** little script, voudrais, you, au revoir

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This is a sentence of the lesson «At the café: ordering 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 (French café visit, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:019-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french.lesson:0
# text = A French café visit has a little script: bonjour when you sit down, je voudrais... s'il vous plaît to order, merci when you are served, l'addition, s'il vous plaît when you want to pay, and au revoir, bonne journée as you leave.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 019-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	script	script	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bonjour	bonjour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	je	je	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	voudrais	voudrais	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	s'il	s'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	merci	merci	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	l'addition	l'addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	s'il	s'il	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	revoir	revoir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	bonne	bonne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	journée	journée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | a French café visit | a little script and bonjour |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent script=Patient |
| 2 | **sit down** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **je** | infinitive | a French café visit *not said here* | voudrais and merci |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **order** | to-infinitive | a French café visit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **serve** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  | l'addition and s'il vous plaît *obl* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 6 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | au revoir and bonne journée |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **leave** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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