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title: In talk, French people often use on for "we", with the same verb as… — Être: to be · tree and pragmatics
description: In talk, French people often use on for "we", with the same verb as il: on est. Who acts: French people. 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.
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# Être: to be, sentence 4

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In talk, French people often use on for "we", with the same verb as il: on est.

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**Who acts:** French people · **What happens:** use on · **To what, where:** talk

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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 (French people), 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:4
# text = In talk, French people often use on for "we", with the same verb as il: on est.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	il	IL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:_
22	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **use on** | present | French people |  |  | talk |  | for we; with the same verb as il and est; often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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