--- title: Watch the sneaky pair tu es and il est: they sound exactly the same,… — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics description: Watch the sneaky pair tu es and il est: they sound exactly the same, "ay", but tu takes es and il or elle takes est with a t. Who acts: you, es, tu, il. 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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Être: to be, sentence 2 Watch the sneaky pair tu es and il est: they sound exactly the same, "ay", but tu takes es and il or elle takes est with a t. **Who acts:** you, es, tu, il · **What happens:** watch, sound, take · **To what, where:** sneaky pair, same, es, 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 (you, es, tu, il), 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:2 # text = Watch the sneaky pair tu es and il est: they sound exactly the same, "ay", but tu takes es and il or elle takes est with a t. # 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): R5-strong ×4 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 3 sneaky sneaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 4 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 5 tu tu NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 es e NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 il IL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 est est NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 13 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 ay ay NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 tu tu X FW Foreign=Yes 23 nsubj _ _ 23 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 24 es e NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 il IL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 elle elle PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 conj _ _ 29 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 30 est est NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 t. t. NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sneaky pair | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | present | es *= e* | the same | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | | 3 | **take** | present | tu | es | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | il | est | | | | with a t. | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent est=Theme | 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:2`. **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 ×4. **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, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/28-etre-to-be/0/) - next →: [Être: to be, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/28-etre-to-be/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/28-etre-to-be/)