--- title: Watch out for false friends, words that look English but mean someth… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: Watch out for false friends, words that look English but mean something else: ask a French baker for "pain" and you get bread, not hurt. Who acts: you, 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, words), 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:3 # text = Watch out for false friends, words that look English but mean something else: ask a French baker for "pain" and you get bread, not hurt. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 14 else else ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 baker baker NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 27 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 hurt hurt VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch out** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for false friends | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for friend=Theme | | 2 | **look** | present | words | | | | | english *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | words *not said here* | something | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | a French baker | | | | for pain | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baker=Recipient | | 5 | **get** | present | you | bread | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **hurt** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:language:035-french-compared-with-english.lesson:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [French compared with English, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/1/) - next →: [French compared with English, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/)