---
title: Le raisin means grapes; a dried raisin is un raisin sec. — False friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Le raisin means grapes; a dried raisin is un raisin sec. Who acts: Le raisin, dried raisin. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/6/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [False friends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/) / 6

# False friends, sentence 6

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Le raisin means grapes; a dried raisin is un raisin sec.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Le raisin, dried raisin · **What happens:** mean, dry, be · **To what, where:** grapes, raisin sec.

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Le raisin, dried raisin), 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:6
# text = Le raisin means grapes; a dried raisin is un raisin sec.
# 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): no change
1	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	raisin	raisin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	raisin	raisin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	raisin	raisin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	sec.	sec.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Le raisin | grapes |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Topic |
| 2 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a dried raisin | raisin sec. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:6`.

**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): no change. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [False friends, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/5/)
- next →: [False friends, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/7/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/)