--- title: In talk, on often means "we", and it takes the same verb as il: on e… — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics description: In talk, on often means "we", and it takes the same verb as il: on est, on a, on joue. Who acts: on, it. A sentence of the lesson «Être: to be» 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/28-etre-to-be/12/) [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/) / [Être: to be](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/28-etre-to-be/) / 12 # Être: to be, sentence 12 In talk, on often means "we", and it takes the same verb as il: on est, on a, on joue. **Who acts:** on, it · **What happens:** mean, take · **To what, where:** we, same verb, est This is a sentence of the lesson «Être: to be» 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 (on, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:028-etre-to-be.lesson:12 # text = In talk, on often means "we", and it takes the same verb as il: on est, on a, on joue. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 028-etre-to-be.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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 on on PRON PRP _ 6 nsubj _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 il IL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 est est NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 23 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 joue joue NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | on | we | | | | in talk; often *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot we=Theme in talk=Attribute | | 2 | **take** | present | it | the same verb | | est | | as il; on a joue | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent verb=Theme on est=Destination | 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:028-etre-to-be.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Être: to be, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/28-etre-to-be/11/) - next →: [Être: to be, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/28-etre-to-be/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/28-etre-to-be/)