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title: L'addition, s'il vous plaît ! means "The bill, please!"; French wait… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: L'addition, s'il vous plaît ! means "The bill, please!"; French waiters usually wait until you ask for it. Who acts: L'addition, French waiters, you. A sentence of the lesson «At the café: ordering in French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# At the café: ordering in French, sentence 10

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L'addition, s'il vous plaît ! means "The bill, please!"; French waiters usually wait until you ask for it.

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**Who acts:** L'addition, French waiters, you · **What happens:** mean, wait, ask · **To what, where:** bill

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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 (L'addition, French waiters, 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:10
# text = L'addition, s'il vous plaît ! means "The bill, please!"; French waiters usually wait until you ask for it.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	L'addition	L'addition	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	s'il	s'il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
16	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	waiters	waiter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **mean** | present | L'addition | the bill |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Topic |
| 2 | **wait** | present | French waiters |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you |  |  |  |  | for bill | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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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