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title: Beef comes from bœuf, pork from porc, mutton from mouton and veal (c… — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics
description: Beef comes from bœuf, pork from porc, mutton from mouton and veal (calf meat) from veau: the farmers kept English names for the animals, and the rich French speakers named the meat. Who acts: Beef, farmers, rich French speakers. A sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» of the f
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# English words that came from French, sentence 7

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Beef comes from bœuf, pork from porc, mutton from mouton and veal (calf meat) from veau: the farmers kept English names for the animals, and the rich French speakers named the meat.

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**Who acts:** Beef, farmers, rich French speakers · **What happens:** come, keep, name · **To what, where:** bœuf, English names, meat

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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 (Beef, farmers, rich French speakers), 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:7
# text = Beef comes from bœuf, pork from porc, mutton from mouton and veal (calf meat) from veau: the farmers kept English names for the animals, and the rich French speakers named the meat.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bœuf	bœuf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	porc	porc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mutton	mutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mouton	mouton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	veal	veal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
16	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	veau	veau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=24:punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come** | present | Beef |  |  | bœuf and pork from porc and mutton from mouton and veal from veau |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bœuf=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the farmers | English names |  |  |  | for the animals | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **name** | past | the rich French speakers | the meat |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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