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title: Even if the waiter speaks English, trying your French first is polit… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: Even if the waiter speaks English, trying your French first is polite, and most waiters will happily help you. Who acts: waiter, trying, most waiters. 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 
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# At the café: ordering in French, sentence 4

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Even if the waiter speaks English, trying your French first is polite, and most waiters will happily help you.

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**Who acts:** waiter, trying, most waiters · **What happens:** speak, try, be, help · **To what, where:** English, French, you · **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 (waiter, trying, most waiters), 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:4
# text = Even if the waiter speaks English, trying your French first is polite, and most waiters will happily help you.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	waiter	waiter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
17	waiters	waiter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **speak** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the waiter | English |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | gerund |  | your French |  |  |  | first *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | trying |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | future | most waiters |  | you |  |  | happily *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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:4`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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