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title: In France un café is a small strong black coffee (an espresso); chil… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: In France un café is a small strong black coffee (an espresso); children usually order un chocolat chaud, un jus d'orange or une limonade. Who acts: un café, children. A sentence of the lesson «At the café: ordering in French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# At the café: ordering in French, sentence 6

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In France un café is a small strong black coffee (an espresso); children usually order un chocolat chaud, un jus d'orange or une limonade.

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**Who acts:** un café, children · **What happens:** be, order · **To what, where:** small strong black coffee, France, un chocolat chaud

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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 (un café, children), 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:6
# text = In France un café is a small strong black coffee (an espresso); children usually order un chocolat chaud, un jus d'orange or une limonade.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	espresso	espresso	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	order	order	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	chocolat	chocolat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	chaud	chaud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	jus	jus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	d'orange	d'orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	une	une	X	FW	_	28	compound	_	_
28	limonade	limonade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | un café | a small strong black coffee |  | France |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | present | children | un chocolat chaud and un jus d'orange or une limonade |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chaud=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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/).

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