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title: Raisin looks like raisin, but in French it means a juicy grape; a li… — False friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Raisin looks like raisin, but in French it means a juicy grape; a librairie looks like a library, but it is a bookshop; and attendre looks like attend, but it means to wait. Who acts: Raisin, librairie, attendre. A sentence of the lesson «False friends» of the french course of Mova's primary school 
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# False friends, sentence 1

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Raisin looks like raisin, but in French it means a juicy grape; a librairie looks like a library, but it is a bookshop; and attendre looks like attend, but it means to wait.

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**Who acts:** Raisin, librairie, attendre · **What happens:** look, mean, be, attend, wait · **To what, where:** juicy grape, bookshop

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This is a sentence of the lesson «False friends» 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 (Raisin, librairie, attendre), 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:1
# text = Raisin looks like raisin, but in French it means a juicy grape; a librairie looks like a library, but it is a bookshop; and attendre looks like attend, but it means to wait.
# 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 ×2
1	Raisin	raisin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	raisin	raisin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	juicy	juicy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	librairie	librairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bookshop	bookshop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	attendre	attendre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
31	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	attend	attend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **look** | present | Raisin |  |  |  |  | like raisin | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Raisin | a juicy grape |  |  |  | in French | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot grape=Theme in french=Attribute |
| 3 | **look** | present | a librairie |  |  |  |  | like a library | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | librairie | a bookshop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | present | attendre |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **attend** | present | attendre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mean** | present | attendre |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **wait** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | attendre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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:035-false-friends.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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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