--- title: The easiest French question is an ordinary sentence with your voice… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics description: The easiest French question is an ordinary sentence with your voice going up at the end like a little hill: "Tu as un chien ?" - Do you have a dog? Who acts: easiest French question, voice, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (easiest French question, voice, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:0 # text = The easiest French question is an ordinary sentence with your voice going up at the end like a little hill: "Tu as un chien ?" - Do you have a dog? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 030-questions-and-simple-sentences.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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 easiest easy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 3 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 up up ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 21 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 23 Tu Tu X FW Foreign=Yes 26 nsubj _ _ 24 as as X FW Foreign=Yes 26 case _ _ 25 un un X FW Foreign=Yes 26 compound _ _ 26 chien chien X FW Foreign=Yes 8 appos _ _ 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 29 - - PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the easiest French question | a ordinary sentence | | | | with your voice | tree rules | | 2 | **go up** | gerund | your voice *not said here* | | | | at the end | like a little hill | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **have** | present · do-support | you | a dog | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | 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:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:0`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Avoir: to have, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/29-avoir-to-have/15/) - next →: [Questions and simple sentences, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/30-questions-and-simple-sentences/)