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title: La bûche de Noël is a rolled chocolate cake shaped like a log; une b… — Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style · tree and pragmatics
description: La bûche de Noël is a rolled chocolate cake shaped like a log; une bûche is a log for the fire, and the word is feminine. Who acts: La bûche, une bûche, word. A sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style, sentence 7

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La bûche de Noël is a rolled chocolate cake shaped like a log; une bûche is a log for the fire, and the word is feminine.

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**Who acts:** La bûche, une bûche, word · **What happens:** roll, be, shape · **To what, where:** rolled chocolate cake, log

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Christmas, Epiphany and pancake day French-style» 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 (La bûche, une bûche, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:032-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style.lesson:7
# text = La bûche de Noël is a rolled chocolate cake shaped like a log; une bûche is a log for the fire, and the word is feminine.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 032-christmas-epiphany-and-pancake-day-french-style.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	La	la	X	GW	_	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	bûche	bûche	X	NN	_	9	nsubj	_	_
3	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	Noël	Noël	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat:foreign	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
15	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bûche	bûche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **roll** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | La bûche | a rolled chocolate cake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shape** | participle |  | a rolled chocolate cake *not said here* |  |  |  | like a log | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **is a** | present | une bûche | a log |  |  |  | for the fire | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the word |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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