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title: Qu'est-ce que tu aimes ? means "What do you like?"; qu'est-ce que so… — Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas · tree and pragmatics
description: Qu'est-ce que tu aimes ? means "What do you like?"; qu'est-ce que sounds like "kess-kuh". Who acts: Qu'est ce que, you. 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 16

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Qu'est-ce que tu aimes ? means "What do you like?"; qu'est-ce que sounds like "kess-kuh".

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**Who acts:** Qu'est ce que, you · **What happens:** mean, like, sound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Qu'est ce que, you), 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:16
# text = Qu'est-ce que tu aimes ? means "What do you like?"; qu'est-ce que sounds like "kess-kuh".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Qu'est	qu'	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	ce	ce	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
4	que	que	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	nsubj	_	_
5	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	aimes	aime	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
17	qu'est	qu'	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	ce	ce	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	_
20	que	que	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
24	kess	kess	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
26	kuh	kuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **mean** | present | Qu'est ce que |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 3 | **sound** | present | qu'est ce que |  |  |  |  | like kess kuh | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:16`.

**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. **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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