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title: Pourquoi ? means "Why?" and parce que means "because": parce que c'e… — Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas · tree and pragmatics
description: Pourquoi ? means "Why?" and parce que means "because": parce que c'est délicieux, nul, ennuyeux (boring) or drôle (funny). Who acts: Pourquoi, parce que. 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 th
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# Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas, sentence 7

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Pourquoi ? means "Why?" and parce que means "because": parce que c'est délicieux, nul, ennuyeux (boring) or drôle (funny).

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**Who acts:** Pourquoi, parce que · **What happens:** mean

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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 (Pourquoi, parce que), 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:7
# text = Pourquoi ? means "Why?" and parce que means "because": parce que c'est délicieux, nul, ennuyeux (boring) or drôle (funny).
# 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): no change
1	Pourquoi	Pourquoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	parce	parce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
16	parce	parce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	c'est	c'	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	dep	_	_
19	délicieux	délicieux	ADJ	JJ	Foreign=Yes	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	nul	nul	ADJ	JJ	Foreign=Yes	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	ennuyeux	ennuyeux	ADJ	JJ	Foreign=Yes	19	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	boring	boring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	drôle	drôle	ADJ	JJ	Foreign=Yes	19	conj	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Pourquoi |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | parce que |  |  |  |  | because parce que | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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**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): no change. **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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