--- title: Picture breakfast in a French hotel: you want jam, so you try to mak… — False friends · tree and pragmatics description: Picture breakfast in a French hotel: you want jam, so you try to make up a word from English "preserve" - and your teacher jumps in fast, because that word, préservatif, is a famously embarrassing false friend that does not mean jam at all; the word you want is confiture. 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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 (you, teacher, Picture breakfast, embarrassing false friend), 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:2 # text = Picture breakfast in a French hotel: you want jam, so you try to make up a word from English "preserve" - and your teacher jumps in fast, because that word, préservatif, is a famously embarrassing false friend that does not mean jam at all; the word you want is confiture. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hotel hotel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 preserve preserve NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 - - PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 30 in in ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 34 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 préservatif préservatif NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 famously famously ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 embarrassing embarrassing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 45 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 46 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 acl:relcl _ _ 49 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 50 at at ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 48 obl _ _ 52 ; ; PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 55 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 acl:relcl _ _ 57 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 cop _ _ 58 confiture confiture NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | you | jam | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jam=Theme | | 2 | **try** | present | you | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **make up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a word | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Pivot | | 4 | **jump in** | present | your teacher | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | Picture breakfast in a French hotel | a embarrassing false friend and confiture | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | a embarrassing false friend and confiture | jam | | all | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jam=Topic | | 7 | **want** | present | you | the word *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | present | the word | confiture | | | | | tree rules | 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [False friends, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/1/) - next →: [False friends, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/)