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title: A French hot-dog is often a sausage poked into a baguette; the h of… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: A French hot-dog is often a sausage poked into a baguette; the h of hot-dog is not said. Who acts: French hot dog. 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 of every clause.
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# At the café: ordering in French, sentence 12

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A French hot-dog is often a sausage poked into a baguette; the h of hot-dog is not said.

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**Who acts:** French hot dog · **What happens:** be, poke, not say · **To what, where:** sausage, baguette, h · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 hot dog), 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:12
# text = A French hot-dog is often a sausage poked into a baguette; the h of hot-dog is not said.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	poked	poke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	baguette	baguette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23: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 | a French hot dog | a sausage |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **poke** | participle |  | a sausage *not said here* |  | a baguette |  |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into baguette=Location |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the h of hot dog |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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:12`.

**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 ×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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