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title: The same question can be asked in several correct ways: Tu habites o… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: The same question can be asked in several correct ways: Tu habites où ?, Où est-ce que tu habites ?, Où habites-tu ? (the last is more formal). Who acts: Tu, Où, last. A sentence of the lesson «Questions and simple sentences» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Questions and simple sentences, sentence 8

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The same question can be asked in several correct ways: Tu habites où ?, Où est-ce que tu habites ?, Où habites-tu ? (the last is more formal).

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**Who acts:** Tu, Où, last · **What happens:** ask, habite, be · **To what, where:** same question, several correct ways, tu

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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 (Tu, Où, last), 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:8
# text = The same question can be asked in several correct ways: Tu habites où ?, Où est-ce que tu habites ?, Où habites-tu ? (the last is more formal).
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	habites	habite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	où	où	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
17	Où	Où	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
18	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	ce	ce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	nmod	_	_
23	habites	habite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Où	Où	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	habites	habite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
29	tu	tu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can · passive |  | the same question |  | several correct ways |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **habite** | present | Tu |  |  |  |  | où Où ce que | tree rules |
| 3 | **habite** | present | Où | tu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the last |  |  |  |  | formal *property* | 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:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:8`.

**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. **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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