--- title: In the classroom — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «In the classroom», a lesson of the french course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your pencil case, une trousse, holds the first French words you will use every day: un stylo (a pen), un crayon (a pencil), une gomme (a rubber) and une r --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/) [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/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / In the classroom # In the classroom Lesson 20 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/20-in-the-classroom/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/0/) — Your pencil case, une trousse, holds the first French words you will use every day: un stylo (a pen), un crayon (a pencil), une gomme (a rubber) and une règle (a ruler). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/1/) — Watch the traps: un crayon is a pencil, not a wax crayon, une gomme is a rubber, not chewing gum, and une trousse is a pencil case, not trousers. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/2/) — The teacher gives orders with vous because she is talking to the whole class: écoutez (listen), regardez (look), levez la main (put your hand up), asseyez-vous (sit down). - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/3/) — Picture Ethan in Cardiff hearing Levez la main ! and standing up: levez-vous means stand up, but levez la main only asks for your hand. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/4/) — Saying Je ne comprends pas (I don't understand) is smart, not silly: every language learner needs it, together with Comment dit-on... en français ? (How do you say... in French?). - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/5/) — une gomme ("GOMM") is a rubber or eraser; chewing gum is un chewing-gum. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/7/) — Je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plaît ? means "May I go to the toilet, please?"; toilettes is plural in French. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/8/) — Classroom orders use vous: écoutez (listen), regardez (look), levez la main (put your hand up), levez-vous (stand up), asseyez-vous (sit down). - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/9/) — Je ne comprends pas means "I don't understand"; Vous pouvez répéter, s'il vous plaît ? means "Can you repeat, please?" - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/11/) — Young children in France call their primary teacher la maîtresse (a woman) or le maître (a man); older pupils say madame or monsieur. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/12/) — un cahier ("ka-YAY") is an exercise book; the h is silent; un livre is a book you read. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/13/) — Little phrases help you speak French every lesson: J'ai fini ! (I've finished!), C'est facile (it's easy), C'est difficile (it's hard). - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/14/) — Teacher comments: Très bien ! (very good), Bravo ! (well done), Excellent ! (excellent), Attention ! (careful). - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/15/) — des ciseaux ("see-ZOH") are scissors and are plural, as in English; la colle is glue and une règle is a ruler. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/16/) — une trousse ("TROOSS") is a pencil case; inside you might find a taille-crayon (a sharpener). - ← previous: [At the café: ordering in French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/19-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french/) - next →: [My house and my home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/21-my-house-and-my-home/) - ↑ back to [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/)