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title: Voilà means "there you go" or "there it is"; it comes from vois là,… — English words that came from French · tree and pragmatics
description: Voilà means "there you go" or "there it is"; it comes from vois là, "see there", and is spelled with an accent, not "walla". Who acts: Voilà, you, meat. 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 pragm
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# English words that came from French, sentence 8

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Voilà means "there you go" or "there it is"; it comes from vois là, "see there", and is spelled with an accent, not "walla".

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**Who acts:** Voilà, you, meat · **What happens:** mean, go, be, come, see, spell · **To what, where:** vois là · **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 (Voilà, you, meat), 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:8
# text = Voilà means "there you go" or "there it is"; it comes from vois là, "see there", and is spelled with an accent, not "walla".
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Voilà	Voilà	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	discourse	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	vois	vois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	là	là	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	walla	walla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Voilà |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | meat |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | meat |  |  | vois là |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **spell** | present · passive | meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a accent | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: with accent=Manner |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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.

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