--- title: Je veux means "I want" and can sound like a toddler demanding; Je vo… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics description: Je veux means "I want" and can sound like a toddler demanding; Je voudrais ("zhuh voo-DRAY") means "I would like" and is the polite way to ask. Who acts: Je veux, Merci means, Je. A sentence of the lesson «Tu or vous? Manners in French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 14 Je veux means "I want" and can sound like a toddler demanding; Je voudrais ("zhuh voo-DRAY") means "I would like" and is the polite way to ask. **Who acts:** Je veux, Merci means, Je · **What happens:** mean, want, sound, demand, like, be · **To what, where:** polite way · **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 (Je veux, Merci means, Je), 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:14 # text = Je veux means "I want" and can sound like a toddler demanding; Je voudrais ("zhuh voo-DRAY") means "I would like" and is the polite way to ask. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Je Je PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 veux veux NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 demanding demand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 16 Je Je PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 17 voudrais voudrais PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 zhuh zhuh INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 21 voo voo ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 DRAY dray NOUN NN 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 3 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Je veux | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Merci means *= means* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **sound** | can | Je veux *not said here* | | | | | like a toddler | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **demand** *speech: request* | gerund | Je veux *not said here* | | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | Je | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **like** *in a quote* | would | Merci means *= means* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **is a** | present | Je *not said here* | the polite way | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Je *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Tu or vous? Manners in French, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/13/) - next →: [Tu or vous? Manners in French, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/)