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title: RSVP stands for Répondez, s'il vous plaît, "Please reply". — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics
description: RSVP stands for Répondez, s'il vous plaît, "Please reply". Who acts: RSVP. A sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English words that came from French, sentence 11

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RSVP stands for Répondez, s'il vous plaît, "Please reply".

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**Who acts:** RSVP · **What happens:** stand, reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «English words that came from French» 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 (RSVP), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson:11
# text = RSVP stands for Répondez, s'il vous plaît, "Please reply".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 036-english-words-that-came-from-french.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	RSVP	rsvp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Répondez	Répondez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	s'il	s'il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plaît	plaît	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
11	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **stand** | present | RSVP |  |  |  |  | for Répondez | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | RSVP *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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:036-english-words-that-came-from-french.lesson:11`.

**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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