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title: People in Quebec speak French but are Canadian, so Tu viens d'où ? (… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: People in Quebec speak French but are Canadian, so Tu viens d'où ? (Where are you from?) is safer than guessing. Who acts: People, you. 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 15

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People in Quebec speak French but are Canadian, so Tu viens d'où ? (Where are you from?) is safer than guessing.

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**Who acts:** People, you · **What happens:** speak, be, guess · **To what, where:** French · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (People, 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:15
# text = People in Quebec speak French but are Canadian, so Tu viens d'où ? (Where are you from?) is safer than guessing.
# 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): no change
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
5	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	viens	vien	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
13	d'où	d'où	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	parataxis	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
24	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | People in Quebec and Tu viens | French |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | People in Quebec and Tu viens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | canadian *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **guess** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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**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:15`.

**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): no change. **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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