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title: Coucou ! ("koo-KOO") is a warm, playful hi for family, small childre… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics
description: Coucou ! ("koo-KOO") is a warm, playful hi for family, small children and good friends; un coucou is also a cuckoo bird. Who acts: Coucou. 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 14

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Coucou ! ("koo-KOO") is a warm, playful hi for family, small children and good friends; un coucou is also a cuckoo bird.

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**Who acts:** Coucou · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** warm hi, cuckoo bird

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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 (Coucou), 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:14
# text = Coucou ! ("koo-KOO") is a warm, playful hi for family, small children and good friends; un coucou is also a cuckoo bird.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Coucou	Coucou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	koo	koo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	KOO	KOO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	playful	playful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	hi	hi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	coucou	coucou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31: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 | **is a** | present | Coucou | a warm hi |  |  |  | for family and small children and good friends and un coucou | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a cuckoo bird and a warm hi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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