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title: In France a greeting is not a nice extra: you say bonjour to the bak… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics
description: In France a greeting is not a nice extra: you say bonjour to the baker, the bus driver and the doctor before anything else, and skipping it sounds rude. Who acts: greeting, you, skipping. A sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: greetings» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Hello and goodbye: greetings, sentence 0

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In France a greeting is not a nice extra: you say bonjour to the baker, the bus driver and the doctor before anything else, and skipping it sounds rude.

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**Who acts:** greeting, you, skipping · **What happens:** not be, say, skip, sound · **To what, where:** nice extra, France, bonjour, baker · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: greetings» 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 (greeting, you, skipping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.lesson:0
# text = In France a greeting is not a nice extra: you say bonjour to the baker, the bus driver and the doctor before anything else, and skipping it sounds rude.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	extra	extra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	bonjour	bonjour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
26	else	else	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **not** **is a** | present | a greeting | a nice extra |  | France |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | bonjour | the baker and the bus driver and the doctor |  | before anything |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bonjour=Topic to baker=Recipient |
| 3 | **skip** | gerund |  | bonjour |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **sound** | present | skipping |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:004-hello-and-goodbye-greetings.lesson:0`.

**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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