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title: Bonsoir ! ("bon-SWAR") means good evening and is a hello; Bonne nuit… — Hello and goodbye: greetings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bonsoir ! ("bon-SWAR") means good evening and is a hello; Bonne nuit ! ("bon NWEE") means good night and is said only before bed. Who acts: Bonsoir, 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 pragmatic
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# Hello and goodbye: greetings, sentence 8

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Bonsoir ! ("bon-SWAR") means good evening and is a hello; Bonne nuit ! ("bon NWEE") means good night and is said only before bed.

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**Who acts:** Bonsoir, hello · **What happens:** mean, be, say · **To what, where:** 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 (Bonsoir, 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:8
# text = Bonsoir ! ("bon-SWAR") means good evening and is a hello; Bonne nuit ! ("bon NWEE") means good night and is said only before bed.
# 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	Bonsoir	Bonsoir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	bon	bon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	SWAR	SWAR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	csubj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hello	hello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Bonne	bonne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	nuit	nuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bon	bon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
24	NWEE	NWEE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Bonsoir |  |  |  | evening |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a hello and Bonne nuit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a hello and Bonne nuit |  |  |  | night |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | a hello and Bonne nuit *not said here* |  |  |  | before bed |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |

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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:8`.

**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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