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title: Short answers are normal in talk: "Tu vas où ?" - "À la piscine !" -… — The town and directions · tree and pragmatics
description: Short answers are normal in talk: "Tu vas où ?" - "À la piscine !" - "Moi aussi !" (Me too!) Who acts: Short answers. A sentence of the lesson «The town and directions» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The town and directions, sentence 15

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Short answers are normal in talk: "Tu vas où ?" - "À la piscine !" - "Moi aussi !" (Me too!)

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**Who acts:** Short answers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** talk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The town and directions» 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 (Short answers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:022-the-town-and-directions.lesson:15
# text = Short answers are normal in talk: "Tu vas où ?" - "À la piscine !" - "Moi aussi !" (Me too!)
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 022-the-town-and-directions.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	vas	vas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	où	où	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	À	À	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	piscine	piscine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
24	aussi	aussi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	dep	_	_
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	advcl	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Short answers |  |  | talk |  | Moi *obl*; normal *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:022-the-town-and-directions.lesson:15`.

**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 ×3, R8-pos-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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