--- title: Many French words look just like English ones and mean the same, lik… — False friends · tree and pragmatics description: Many French words look just like English ones and mean the same, like animal or table - but some look friendly and then trick you: these are called false friends (faux amis). Who acts: Many French words, some. 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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 (Many French words, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:035-false-friends.lesson:0 # text = Many French words look just like English ones and mean the same, like animal or table - but some look friendly and then trick you: these are called false friends (faux amis). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 035-false-friends.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 - - PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 21 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 trick trick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 31 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 34 faux faux ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 amis ami NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 appos _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | Many French words | | | | | like English ones | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **mean** | present | Many French words *not said here* | the same | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic | | 3 | **look** | present | some | | | | | friendly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **trick** | present | some *not said here* | you | | | then | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 5 | **call** | present · passive | | these | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:035-false-friends.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [France and the French-speaking world, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/34-france-and-the-french-speaking-world/17/) - next →: [False friends, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/)