--- title: To call a waiter politely say Excusez-moi, monsieur ! or S'il vous p… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics description: To call a waiter politely say Excusez-moi, monsieur ! or S'il vous plaît ! with a small raised hand; shouting garçon (boy) is old-fashioned and rude today. Who acts: you, shouting garçon. 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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, shouting garçon), 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:5 # text = To call a waiter politely say Excusez-moi, monsieur ! or S'il vous plaît ! with a small raised hand; shouting garçon (boy) is old-fashioned and rude today. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 waiter waiter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 politely politely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Excusez Excusez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 moi moi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 monsieur monsieur NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 S'il S'il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 15 vous vous PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 flat _ _ 16 plaît plaît NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 shouting shout VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 garçon garçon NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 27 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | a waiter | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent waiter=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | Excusez or S'il | | | | with a small raised hand; politely *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent excusez=Theme with hand=Manner | | 3 | **raise** | participle | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | shouting garçon | | | | today | fashioned *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | shouting garçon *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:5`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [At the café: ordering in French, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/)