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title: de l'eau plate is still water and de l'eau gazeuse is sparkling wate… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: de l'eau plate is still water and de l'eau gazeuse is sparkling water; une carafe d'eau is tap water and is free in French restaurants. Who acts: de, une carafe d'eau. A sentence of the lesson «At the café: ordering in French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# At the café: ordering in French, sentence 11

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de l'eau plate is still water and de l'eau gazeuse is sparkling water; une carafe d'eau is tap water and is free in French restaurants.

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**Who acts:** de, une carafe d'eau · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** water, sparkling water, tap water, French restaurants

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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 (de, une carafe d'eau), 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:11
# text = de l'eau plate is still water and de l'eau gazeuse is sparkling water; une carafe d'eau is tap water and is free in French restaurants.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
2	l'eau	l'eau	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	plate	plate	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	compound	_	_
9	l'eau	l'eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gazeuse	gazeuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	carafe	carafe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	d'eau	d'eau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	restaurants	restaurant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | de | water and sparkling water |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | de *not said here* | sparkling water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | une carafe d'eau | tap water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | une carafe d'eau *not said here* |  |  | French restaurants |  | free *property* | 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:019-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french.lesson:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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