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title: un croque-monsieur is a toasted ham and cheese sandwich; un croque-m… — At the café: ordering in French · tree and pragmatics
description: un croque-monsieur is a toasted ham and cheese sandwich; un croque-madame is the same with a fried egg on top; croquer means to crunch. Who acts: un croque monsieur, un. A sentence of the lesson «At the café: ordering in French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# At the café: ordering in French, sentence 7

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un croque-monsieur is a toasted ham and cheese sandwich; un croque-madame is the same with a fried egg on top; croquer means to crunch.

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**Who acts:** un croque monsieur, un · **What happens:** toast, be, fry, croquer, mean, crunch · **To what, where:** toasted ham sandwich

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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 croque monsieur, un), 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:7
# text = un croque-monsieur is a toasted ham and cheese sandwich; un croque-madame is the same with a fried egg on top; croquer means to crunch.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	un	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	croque	croque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	monsieur	monsieur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	toasted	toast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
8	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	croque	croque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	madame	madame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	croquer	croquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	nsubj	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	crunch	crunch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **toast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | un croque monsieur | a toasted ham sandwich |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | un and croque madame |  |  |  |  | with a fried egg on top; same *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **croquer** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **crunch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=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:7`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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