--- title: A false friend can still be a good friend once you know it: un car i… — False friends · tree and pragmatics description: A false friend can still be a good friend once you know it: un car is a coach, la monnaie is your change, and la lecture is reading time, not a boring talk. Who acts: false friend, you, un car, la lecture. 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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 (false friend, you, un car, la lecture), 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:4 # text = A false friend can still be a good friend once you know it: un car is a coach, la monnaie is your change, and la lecture is reading time, not a boring talk. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 once once SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 19 conj _ _ 22 monnaie monnaie X FW Foreign=Yes 19 dep _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 la la ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod 29 lecture lecture NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | can | a false friend | a good friend and a boring talk | | | still | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | present | you | habit | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | un car | a coach and your change | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | un car *not said here* | your change | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **read** | present · progressive | la lecture | | | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [False friends, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/3/) - next →: [False friends, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/)