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title: des frites et un Coca means chips and a cola; starting with bonjour… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: des frites et un Coca means chips and a cola; starting with bonjour and trying French is always welcome. Who acts: frites. 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 13

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des frites et un Coca means chips and a cola; starting with bonjour and trying French is always welcome.

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**Who acts:** frites · **What happens:** mean, start, try, be · **To what, where:** chips, French

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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 (frites), 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:13
# text = des frites et un Coca means chips and a cola; starting with bonjour and trying French is always welcome.
# 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, R5-strong ×1
1	des	des	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frites	frite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
4	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Coca	coca	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	bonjour	bonjour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | des frites et un Coca | chips and a cola |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Topic |
| 2 | **start** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with bonjour | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with bonjour=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **try** | gerund |  | French |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | always, welcome *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:13`.

**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, R5-strong ×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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