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title: Sensible in French means sensitive (easily upset or touched); "sensi… — False friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sensible in French means sensitive (easily upset or touched); "sensible" in English is raisonnable or sage. Who acts: Sensible. 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 8

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Sensible in French means sensitive (easily upset or touched); "sensible" in English is raisonnable or sage.

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**Who acts:** Sensible · **What happens:** mean, touch, be

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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 (Sensible), 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:8
# text = Sensible in French means sensitive (easily upset or touched); "sensible" in English is raisonnable or sage.
# 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 ×2
1	Sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
7	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	raisonnable	raisonnable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Sensible in French |  |  |  |  | sensitive *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | participle | Sensible in French *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | sensible in English |  |  |  |  | raisonnable *property* | 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:8`.

**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 ×2. **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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