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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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/15/) [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/) / [Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/) / 15 # Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas, sentence 15 Bof is a shrugging sound meaning "meh, so-so"; it means not great and not terrible, not "bad". **Who acts:** Bof, meaning · **What happens:** shrug, be, mean · **To what, where:** sound meaning 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 (Bof, meaning), 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:15 # text = Bof is a shrugging sound meaning "meh, so-so"; it means not great and not terrible, not "bad". # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bof Bof PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 4 shrugging shrug VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 5 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 meh meh INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrug** | gerund | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Bof | sound meaning | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | meaning | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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: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): R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/14/) - next →: [Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/)