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title: Je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plaît ? means "May I go to th… — In the classroom · tree and pragmatics
description: Je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plaît ? means "May I go to the toilet, please?"; toilettes is plural in French. Who acts: Je, I, toilettes. A sentence of the lesson «In the classroom» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In the classroom, sentence 7

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Je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plaît ? means "May I go to the toilet, please?"; toilettes is plural in French.

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**Who acts:** Je, I, toilettes · **What happens:** mean, go, be · **To what, where:** toilet, French · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Je, I, toilettes), 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:7
# text = Je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plaît ? means "May I go to the toilet, please?"; toilettes is plural in French.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Je	Je	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
2	peux	peux	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	aller	all	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	aux	aux	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	toilettes	toilette	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	s'il	s'il	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
8	vous	vous	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
9	plaît	plaît	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:discourse
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	toilettes	toilette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Je |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | may | I |  |  | the toilet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | toilettes |  |  | French |  | plural *property* | tree rules |

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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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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