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title: Debout ! ("duh-BOO") means "Get up!"; word for word it means standing. — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics
description: Debout ! ("duh-BOO") means "Get up!"; word for word it means standing. Who acts: Debout, word. A sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Telling the time, sentence 13

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Debout ! ("duh-BOO") means "Get up!"; word for word it means standing.

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**Who acts:** Debout, word · **What happens:** mean, get up · **To what, where:** word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» 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 (Debout, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:012-telling-the-time.lesson:13
# text = Debout ! ("duh-BOO") means "Get up!"; word for word it means standing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 012-telling-the-time.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Debout	Debout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	BOO	boo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
22	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Debout |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mean** | present | word | word for word |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standing=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:012-telling-the-time.lesson:13`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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