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title: Picture a farm in 1100: the English-speaking farmer looks after a co… — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a farm in 1100: the English-speaking farmer looks after a cow, a pig and a sheep, but when the meat reaches the French-speaking lord's table it is called beef, pork and mutton - from French bœuf, porc and mouton. Who acts: you, speaking farmer, meat. A sentence of the lesson «English words t
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# English words that came from French, sentence 2

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Picture a farm in 1100: the English-speaking farmer looks after a cow, a pig and a sheep, but when the meat reaches the French-speaking lord's table it is called beef, pork and mutton - from French bœuf, porc and mouton.

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**Who acts:** you, speaking farmer, meat · **What happens:** picture, speak, look, reach, call · **To what, where:** farm, 1100, table, meat, French bœuf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» 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 (you, speaking farmer, meat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson:2
# text = Picture a farm in 1100: the English-speaking farmer looks after a cow, a pig and a sheep, but when the meat reaches the French-speaking lord's table it is called beef, pork and mutton - from French bœuf, porc and mouton.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 036-english-words-that-came-from-french.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1100	1100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	farmer	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
38	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	mutton	mutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=40:conj
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	bœuf	bœuf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:appos
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	porc	porc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:appos
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	mouton	mouton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a farm |  | 1100 |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent farm=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | present | the speaking farmer |  |  |  | after a cow and a pig and a sheep |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **reach** | present | the meat | the French speaking lord's table |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent table=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **call** | present · passive |  | meat |  | French bœuf and porc and mouton |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from bœuf=Source |

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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:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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