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title: À demain ! means see you tomorrow, À bientôt ! means see you soon, a… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics
description: À demain ! means see you tomorrow, À bientôt ! means see you soon, and À plus ! ("a PLUSS") means see you later; teens write it A+. Who acts: À demain, À, teens. A sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: greetings» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hello and goodbye: greetings, sentence 15

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À demain ! means see you tomorrow, À bientôt ! means see you soon, and À plus ! ("a PLUSS") means see you later; teens write it A+.

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**Who acts:** À demain, À, teens · **What happens:** mean, see, write · **To what, where:** you, demain · **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 (À demain, À, teens), 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:15
# text = À demain ! means see you tomorrow, À bientôt ! means see you soon, and À plus ! ("a PLUSS") means see you later; teens write it A+.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	À	à	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	demain	demain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	À	À	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bientôt	bientôt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	À	À	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	plus	plus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	PLUSS	PLUSS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	teens	teen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	A	A	SYM	SYM	_	33	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:xcomp
36	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	35	compound	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | À demain |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present |  | you |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | present |  | you |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 5 | **mean** | present | À |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **see** | present |  | you |  |  |  | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 7 | **write** | infinitive | teens | demain |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient a=Topic |

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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:15`.

**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, 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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