--- title: Never click your fingers or shout "Garçon!" as in old films: today t… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics description: Never click your fingers or shout "Garçon!" as in old films: today that is rude; catch the waiter's eye, smile and say S'il vous plaît, monsieur ! or Excusez-moi ! Who acts: you, today, S'il. 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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 (you, today, S'il), 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:1 # text = Never click your fingers or shout "Garçon!" as in old films: today that is rude; catch the waiter's eye, smile and say S'il vous plaît, monsieur ! or Excusez-moi ! # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 click click VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 shout shout VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 Garçon Garçon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 11 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 catch catch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 23 waiter waiter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 smile smile VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 30 S'il S'il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 vous vous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 flat:foreign _ _ 32 plaît plaît NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 flat:foreign _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 monsieur monsieur NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Excusez Excusez VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 39 moi moi PRON PRP Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **click** | imperative | you *not said here* | your fingers | | | | as old films | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Garçon | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garçon=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | today | | | | | rude *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **catch** | infinitive | | the waiter's eye | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 5 | **smile** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | S'il | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **excusez** | infinitive | S'il *not said here* | moi | | | | | tree rules | 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:019-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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: [At the café: ordering in French, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/0/) - next →: [At the café: ordering in French, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/)