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title: In Côte d'Ivoire, "On dit quoi ?" is a friendly "What's up?", and "Ç… — France and the French-speaking world · tree and pragmatics
description: In Côte d'Ivoire, "On dit quoi ?" is a friendly "What's up?", and "Ça va un peu" means "I'm okay, so-so". Who acts: dit quoi, va un peu, people. A sentence of the lesson «France and the French-speaking world» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# France and the French-speaking world, sentence 13

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In Côte d'Ivoire, "On dit quoi ?" is a friendly "What's up?", and "Ça va un peu" means "I'm okay, so-so".

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**Who acts:** dit quoi, va un peu, people · **What happens:** be, be up, mean · **To what, where:** Côte d'Ivoire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «France and the French-speaking world» 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 (dit quoi, va un peu, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:034-france-and-the-french-speaking-world.lesson:13
# text = In Côte d'Ivoire, "On dit quoi ?" is a friendly "What's up?", and "Ça va un peu" means "I'm okay, so-so".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 034-france-and-the-french-speaking-world.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Côte	Côte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	d'Ivoire	d'ivoire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
6	On	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	dit	dit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	quoi	quoi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
16	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Ça	Ça	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	va	VA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	peu	peu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	conj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is** | present | dit quoi |  |  | Côte d'Ivoire |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be up** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | va un peu |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | people |  |  |  |  | okay *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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**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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