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title: French has two words for "you": tu, the friendly one, and vous, the… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics
description: French has two words for "you": tu, the friendly one, and vous, the polite one, and choosing between them is part of good manners. Who acts: French. A sentence of the lesson «Tu or vous? Manners in French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 0

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French has two words for "you": tu, the friendly one, and vous, the polite one, and choosing between them is part of good manners.

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**Who acts:** French · **What happens:** have, choose, be · **To what, where:** two words, part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tu or vous? Manners in French» 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 (French), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:005-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french.lesson:0
# text = French has two words for "you": tu, the friendly one, and vous, the polite one, and choosing between them is part of good manners.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 005-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french.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	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	tu	tu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	vous	vous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | French | two words |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | between tu | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | French *not said here* | part |  |  |  | of good manners | 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:005-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french.lesson:0`.

**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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