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title: Wesh is a slang hi among French teenagers that came from Arabic; Bie… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics
description: Wesh is a slang hi among French teenagers that came from Arabic; Bien ou quoi ? is slang for "You alright?" Who acts: Wesh, French teenagers, Bien. 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 eve
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# Hello and goodbye: greetings, sentence 17

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Wesh is a slang hi among French teenagers that came from Arabic; Bien ou quoi ? is slang for "You alright?"

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**Who acts:** Wesh, French teenagers, Bien · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** slang, Arabic

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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 (Wesh, French teenagers, Bien), 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:17
# text = Wesh is a slang hi among French teenagers that came from Arabic; Bien ou quoi ? is slang for "You alright?"
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Wesh	Wesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	hi	hi	NOUN	NN	_	4	appos	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	teenagers	teenager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
14	Bien	Bien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	ou	ou	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	quoi	quoi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	alright	alright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	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 | Wesh | a slang and slang |  |  |  | among French teenagers | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | French teenagers |  |  | Arabic |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from arabic=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Bien | slang |  |  |  |  | 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:17`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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