--- title: Merci ! means thank you and Merci beaucoup ! means thanks a lot; the… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics description: Merci ! means thank you and Merci beaucoup ! means thanks a lot; the answer De rien ! ("duh RYAN") means "you're welcome", literally "of nothing". Who acts: Merci means, answer, you. A sentence of the lesson «Tu or vous? Manners in French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Tu or vous? Manners in French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/) / 10 # Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 10 Merci ! means thank you and Merci beaucoup ! means thanks a lot; the answer De rien ! ("duh RYAN") means "you're welcome", literally "of nothing". **Who acts:** Merci means, answer, you · **What happens:** thank, mean, be · **To what, where:** you, lot · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Merci means, answer, you), 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:10 # text = Merci ! means thank you and Merci beaucoup ! means thanks a lot; the answer De rien ! ("duh RYAN") means "you're welcome", literally "of nothing". # 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 ×2 1 Merci Merci PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 3 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 Merci Merci PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 beaucoup beaucoup NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 11 thanks thank VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 17 De De PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat:foreign _ _ 18 rien rien X FW Foreign=Yes 17 flat:foreign _ _ 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 duh duh INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 23 RYAN RYAN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 literally literally ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obl _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | Merci means | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | a lot | | | | of nothing; literally *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | the answer | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | welcome *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:10`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Tu or vous? Manners in French, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/5/) - next →: [Tu or vous? Manners in French, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/)