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title: Question words: qui (who), quoi (what), où (where), quand (when), co… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: Question words: qui (who), quoi (what), où (where), quand (when), comment (how), pourquoi (why), combien (how many). A sentence of the lesson «Questions and simple sentences» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Questions and simple sentences, sentence 12

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Question words: qui (who), quoi (what), où (where), quand (when), comment (how), pourquoi (why), combien (how many).

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions and simple sentences» 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: 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:12
# text = Question words: qui (who), quoi (what), où (where), quand (when), comment (how), pourquoi (why), combien (how many).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×4
1	Question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	qui	qui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	appos	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
9	quoi	quoi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	où	où	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	appos	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	quand	quand	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
29	pourquoi	pourquoi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	dep	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
31	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	combien	combien	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=other

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.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 ×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/).

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