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title: une glace is an ice cream; Quel parfum ? means "Which flavour?"; par… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: une glace is an ice cream; Quel parfum ? means "Which flavour?"; parfum means both perfume and flavour; common flavours are vanille, chocolat, fraise and citron. Who acts: une glace, parfum, common flavours. A sentence of the lesson «At the café: ordering in French» of the french course of Mova's pr
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# At the café: ordering in French, sentence 16

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une glace is an ice cream; Quel parfum ? means "Which flavour?"; parfum means both perfume and flavour; common flavours are vanille, chocolat, fraise and citron.

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**Who acts:** une glace, parfum, common flavours · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** ice cream, flavour, perfume, vanille

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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 (une glace, parfum, common flavours), 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:16
# text = une glace is an ice cream; Quel parfum ? means "Which flavour?"; parfum means both perfume and flavour; common flavours are vanille, chocolat, fraise and citron.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	glace	glace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Quel	Quel	DET	DT	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	parfum	parfum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	flavour	flavour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	parfum	parfum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc:preconj	_	_
21	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	flavour	flavour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flavours	flavour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	vanille	vanille	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	chocolat	chocolat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	fraise	fraise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	citron	citron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | une glace | a ice cream and Quel parfum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  | which flavour |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flavour=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | parfum | perfume and flavour |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | common flavours | vanille and chocolat and fraise and citron |  |  |  |  | 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:16`.

**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): 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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