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title: Jam is la confiture; préservatif is an embarrassing false friend and… — False friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Jam is la confiture; préservatif is an embarrassing false friend and does not mean jam. Who acts: Jam. 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 7

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Jam is la confiture; préservatif is an embarrassing false friend and does not mean jam.

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**Who acts:** Jam · **What happens:** be, not mean · **To what, where:** la confiture, embarrassing false friend, jam

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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 (Jam), 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:7
# text = Jam is la confiture; préservatif is an embarrassing false friend and does not mean jam.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	la	la	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod
4	confiture	confiture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	préservatif	préservatif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Jam | la confiture and préservatif |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a embarrassing false friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support |  | jam |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jam=Topic |

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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:7`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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