--- title: Picture Riley in a Paris café waiting ages for the bill: the waiter… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Riley in a Paris café waiting ages for the bill: the waiter isn't rude, he is being polite by not rushing you, and he brings the bill only when you ask. Who acts: you, Paris café, waiter, Riley. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Paris café, waiter, Riley), 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:3 # text = Picture Riley in a Paris café waiting ages for the bill: the waiter isn't rude, he is being polite by not rushing you, and he brings the bill only when you ask. # 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): no change 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Riley Riley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 café café NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 waiter waiter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 22 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 23 by by SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 rushing rush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 when when SCONJ WRB _ 36 mark _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Riley | | a Paris café | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent riley=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | a Paris café *not said here* | ages | | | | for the bill | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | the waiter | | | | | rude *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present · progressive | Riley | | | | | polite *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **rush** | gerund | Riley *not said here* | you | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Agent | | 6 | **bring** | present | Riley | the bill | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bill=Theme | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:3`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [At the café: ordering in French, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/2/) - next →: [At the café: ordering in French, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/)