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title: La lecture means reading; a long talk is une conférence or un cours. — False friends · tree and pragmatics
description: La lecture means reading; a long talk is une conférence or un cours. Who acts: La lecture, long talk. 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 16

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La lecture means reading; a long talk is une conférence or un cours.

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**Who acts:** La lecture, long talk · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** reading, une conférence

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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 (La lecture, long talk), 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:16
# text = La lecture means reading; a long talk is une conférence or un cours.
# 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	La	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	amod	_	_
2	lecture	lecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	une	une	X	FW	_	11	compound	_	_
11	conférence	conférence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cours	cours	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **mean** | present | La lecture | reading |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a long talk | une conférence or un cours |  |  |  |  | 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:16`.

**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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