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title: Some orders surprise English speakers: un café is a tiny strong blac… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: Some orders surprise English speakers: un café is a tiny strong black coffee, une limonade is fizzy, and Quel parfum ? asks which flavour, not which perfume. Who acts: orders, un café, une limonade, Quel parfum. A sentence of the lesson «At the café: ordering in French» of the french course of Mova'
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# At the café: ordering in French, sentence 2

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Some orders surprise English speakers: un café is a tiny strong black coffee, une limonade is fizzy, and Quel parfum ? asks which flavour, not which perfume.

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**Who acts:** orders, un café, une limonade, Quel parfum · **What happens:** surprise, be, ask · **To what, where:** English speakers, tiny strong black coffee, flavour

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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 (orders, un café, une limonade, Quel parfum), 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:2
# text = Some orders surprise English speakers: un café is a tiny strong black coffee, une limonade is fizzy, and Quel parfum ? asks which flavour, not which perfume.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	surprise	surprise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	limonade	limonade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Quel	Quel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	parfum	parfum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
25	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	27	det	_	_
27	flavour	flavour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	31	det	_	_
31	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **surprise** | present | some orders | English speakers |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus speaker=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | un café | a tiny strong black coffee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | une limonade |  |  |  |  | fizzy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Quel parfum | which flavour and which perfume |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flavour=Recipient |

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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:2`.

**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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