--- title: With the voice going up, ça va is a question; with the voice going d… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics description: With the voice going up, ça va is a question; with the voice going down, it is an answer. Who acts: voice, ça va. A sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: greetings» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Hello and goodbye: greetings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings/) / 10 # Hello and goodbye: greetings, sentence 10 With the voice going up, ça va is a question; with the voice going down, it is an answer. **Who acts:** voice, ça va · **What happens:** go up, be, go down · **To what, where:** question, answer 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 (voice, ça va), 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:10 # text = With the voice going up, ça va is a question; with the voice going down, it is an answer. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 With with SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 ça ça PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 va VA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 16 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | gerund | the voice | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | ça va | a question | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go down** | gerund | the voice *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **is a** | present | voice | a answer | | | | with the voice | tree rules | 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. **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:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [Hello and goodbye: greetings, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings/8/) - next →: [Hello and goodbye: greetings, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/4-hello-and-goodbye-greetings/)