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title: Un car is a coach for trips; a car is une voiture and a city bus is… — False friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Un car is a coach for trips; a car is une voiture and a city bus is un bus. Who acts: Un car, car, city bus. A sentence of the lesson «False friends» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# False friends, sentence 11

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Un car is a coach for trips; a car is une voiture and a city bus is un bus.

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**Who acts:** Un car, car, city bus · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** coach, une voiture, un bus

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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 (Un car, car, city bus), 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:11
# text = Un car is a coach for trips; a car is une voiture and a city bus is un bus.
# 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 ×1
1	Un	Un	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	une	une	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	voiture	voiture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Un car | a coach and un bus |  |  |  | for trips | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a car | une voiture |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a city bus | un bus |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:11`.

**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 ×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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