--- title: False friends look like English words but mean something different:… — French compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: False friends look like English words but mean something different: "pain" means bread, "coin" means corner, "librairie" means bookshop and "raisin" means grape. Who acts: False friends, pain, coin, librairie. A sentence of the lesson «French compared with English» of the language course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [French compared with English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/) / 7 # French compared with English, sentence 7 False friends look like English words but mean something different: "pain" means bread, "coin" means corner, "librairie" means bookshop and "raisin" means grape. **Who acts:** False friends, pain, coin, librairie · **What happens:** look, mean · **To what, where:** something, bread, corner, bookshop, grape 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 (False friends, pain, coin, librairie), 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:7 # text = False friends look like English words but mean something different: "pain" means bread, "coin" means corner, "librairie" means bookshop and "raisin" means grape. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 False false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 10 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 22 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 librairie librairie NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 28 bookshop bookshop NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 raisin raisin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 34 grape grape NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | False friends | | | | | like English words | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **mean** | present | False friends *not said here* | something | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | pain | bread | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | coin | corner | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | librairie and raisin | bookshop | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bookshop=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | librairie and raisin *not said here* | grape | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=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:language:035-french-compared-with-english.lesson:7`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [French compared with English, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/6/) - next →: [French compared with English, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/35-french-compared-with-english/)