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title: "De la farine, trois œufs, du lait et un peu de sucre" means flour,… — Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: "De la farine, trois œufs, du lait et un peu de sucre" means flour, three eggs, milk and a little sugar. Who acts: De farine. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 17

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"De la farine, trois œufs, du lait et un peu de sucre" means flour, three eggs, milk and a little sugar.

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**Who acts:** De farine · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** flour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» 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 (De farine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:17
# text = "De la farine, trois œufs, du lait et un peu de sucre" means flour, three eggs, milk and a little sugar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
2	De	De	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
3	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	farine	farine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	trois	trois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	œufs	œuf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	du	du	X	GW	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	lait	lait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	peu	peu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	de	de	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sucre	sucre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | De farine and lait et un peu de sucre | flour and three eggs and milk and a little sugar |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=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:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:17`.

**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/).

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