--- title: Watch for traps: false friends like librairie, tiny words that flip… — Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Watch for traps: false friends like librairie, tiny words that flip the meaning like ne ... pas, and French habits such as a comma in a price - 9,50 € means nine euros fifty. Who acts: you, tiny words, €. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tiny words, €), 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:2 # text = Watch for traps: false friends like librairie, tiny words that flip the meaning like ne ... pas, and French habits such as a comma in a price - 9,50 € means nine euros fifty. # 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 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 librairie librairie NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 flip flip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 ne ne NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 ... ... PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 pas pas NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 24 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 comma comma NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 32 9,50 9,50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 appos _ _ 33 € € NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 35 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 euros euro NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 flat _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for traps | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for trap=Theme | | 2 | **flip** | present | tiny words | the meaning | | | | like ne and pas and French habits such a comma in a price | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | € | nine euros | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent euro=Topic | 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. **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: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): 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: decoding a short French text…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: decoding a short French text…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/)