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title: The teacher gives orders with vous because she is talking to the who… — In the classroom · tree and pragmatics
description: 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). Who acts: teacher. A sentence of the lesson «In the classroom» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# In the classroom, sentence 2

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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).

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**Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** give, talk, listen, look, put up, sit down · **To what, where:** orders, hand

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the classroom» 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 (teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:020-in-the-classroom.lesson:2
# text = 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).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 020-in-the-classroom.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 ×5
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vous	vous	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nmod	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	écoutez	écoutez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	conj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
21	regardez	regardez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	dep	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
26	levez	levez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	dep	_	_
27	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	conj	_	_
28	main	main	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	parataxis	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
36	asseyez	asseyez	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	amod	_	_
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	_
38	vous	vous	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	conj	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
40	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	down	down	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the teacher | orders |  |  |  | with vous | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | present · progressive | teacher |  |  |  |  | to the whole class | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to class=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **put up** | infinitive |  | your hand |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 6 | **sit down** | infinitive | the teacher *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:020-in-the-classroom.lesson:2`.

**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 ×5. **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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