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title: Comment tu t'appelles ? means "What's your name?" and the answer is… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics
description: Comment tu t'appelles ? means "What's your name?" and the answer is Je m'appelle..., "I call myself...". Who acts: Comment, answer, hello. 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
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# Hello and goodbye: greetings, sentence 11

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Comment tu t'appelles ? means "What's your name?" and the answer is Je m'appelle..., "I call myself...".

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**Who acts:** Comment, answer, hello · **What happens:** mean, be, call · **To what, where:** name, Je m'appelle, hello · **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 (Comment, answer, hello), 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:11
# text = Comment tu t'appelles ? means "What's your name?" and the answer is Je m'appelle..., "I call myself...".
# 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	Comment	comment	X	FW	_	5	nsubj	_	_
2	tu	tu	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	t'appelles	t'appelle	X	FW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	Je	Je	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	m'appelle	m'appelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
24	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Comment |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | your name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the answer | Je m'appelle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* | present | a hello and Bonne nuit *= hello* | a hello and Bonne nuit *= hello* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient |

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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: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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