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title: ou means "or" and où means "where": Thé ou café ? (tea or coffee?),… — Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: ou means "or" and où means "where": Thé ou café ? (tea or coffee?), Où est le chat ? (where is the cat?). Who acts: ou, où. A sentence of the lesson «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends, sentence 13

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ou means "or" and où means "where": Thé ou café ? (tea or coffee?), Où est le chat ? (where is the cat?).

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**Who acts:** ou, où · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** Thé café, cat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents: é, è, ê, ç and friends» 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 (ou, où), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.lesson:13
# text = ou means "or" and où means "where": Thé ou café ? (tea or coffee?), Où est le chat ? (where is the cat?).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.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 ×1
1	ou	ou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	2	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	où	où	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	conj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Thé	Thé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	ou	ou	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
15	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Où	Où	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
25	est	EST	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | ou | Thé café |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | où |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the cat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:003-accents-e-e-e-c-and-friends.lesson:13`.

**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 ×1. **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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