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title: Pourquoi ? (why?) is answered with parce que (because): Parce que c'… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: Pourquoi ? (why?) is answered with parce que (because): Parce que c'est génial ! 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 13

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Pourquoi ? (why?) is answered with parce que (because): Parce que c'est génial !

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**What happens:** answer

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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:13
# text = Pourquoi ? (why?) is answered with parce que (because): Parce que c'est génial !
# 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 ×2
1	Pourquoi	Pourquoi	X	FW	_	8	dislocated	_	_
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	parce	parce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
13	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
16	Parce	Parce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
18	c'est	ce	PRON	PRP	_	19	nsubj	_	_
19	génial	génial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with parce que; Pourquoi *dislocated* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V» |

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

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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