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title: English uses whole French phrases: "rendezvous" (a meeting), "déjà v… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics
description: English uses whole French phrases: "rendezvous" (a meeting), "déjà vu" (already seen, the odd feeling of having lived a moment before) and "bon appétit" (enjoy your meal). Who acts: English. A sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the language course of Mova's primary school with 
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# French compared with English, sentence 11

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English uses whole French phrases: "rendezvous" (a meeting), "déjà vu" (already seen, the odd feeling of having lived a moment before) and "bon appétit" (enjoy your meal).

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**Who acts:** English · **What happens:** use, déjà, see, live, enjoy · **To what, where:** whole French phrases, vu, odd feeling, meal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the language 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 (English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:035-french-compared-with-english.lesson:11
# text = English uses whole French phrases: "rendezvous" (a meeting), "déjà vu" (already seen, the odd feeling of having lived a moment before) and "bon appétit" (enjoy your meal).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 035-french-compared-with-english.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	rendezvous	rendezvous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	déjà	déjà	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	vu	vu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	already	already	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	aux	_	_
28	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
35	bon	bon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	appétit	appétit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
39	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
43	.	.	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 | **use** | present | English | whole French phrases |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Patient |
| 2 | **déjà** *in a quote* | past | English *not said here* | vu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | participle |  | vu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **live** | gerund · perfect |  | the odd feeling *not said here* |  |  | moment | before *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **enjoy** | infinitive |  | your meal |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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