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title: tu means you (to a friend) and uses the French u; tout means all and… — Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r… · tree and pragmatics
description: tu means you (to a friend) and uses the French u; tout means all and sounds like English "too". Who acts: tout. A sentence of the lesson «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u, sentence 11

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tu means you (to a friend) and uses the French u; tout means all and sounds like English "too".

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**Who acts:** tout · **What happens:** mean, use, sound · **To what, where:** you, French u, all

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny French sounds: nasal vowels, the French r and u» 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 (tout), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.lesson:11
# text = tu means you (to a friend) and uses the French u; tout means all and sounds like English "too".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.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 ×1
1	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	discourse	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	u	u	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	tout	tout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  | you |  |  |  | to a friend | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot you=Theme to friend=Attribute |
| 2 | **use** | present |  | the French u |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent u=Patient |
| 3 | **mean** | present | tout | all |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic |
| 4 | **sound** | present | tout *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like English | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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**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:002-funny-french-sounds-nasal-vowels-the-french-r-and-u.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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/).

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