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title: Je kiffe is slang for "I really like"; teenagers use it with friends… — Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas · tree and pragmatics
description: Je kiffe is slang for "I really like"; teenagers use it with friends, not in written work. Who acts: Je kiffe, teenagers. A sentence of the lesson «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas, sentence 12

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Je kiffe is slang for "I really like"; teenagers use it with friends, not in written work.

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**Who acts:** Je kiffe, teenagers · **What happens:** be, like, use, write · **To what, where:** kiffe

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas» 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 kiffe, teenagers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:024-likes-and-dislikes.lesson:12
# text = Je kiffe is slang for "I really like"; teenagers use it with friends, not in written work.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 024-likes-and-dislikes.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Je	Je	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	kiffe	kiffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	teenagers	teenager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Je kiffe |  |  |  |  | for slang | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | present | teenagers *= teenager* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **use** | present | teenagers | kiffe |  |  |  | with friends | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:024-likes-and-dislikes.lesson:12`.

**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): 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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