--- title: When someone sneezes, say À vos souhaits ! to a grown-up or À tes so… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics description: When someone sneezes, say À vos souhaits ! to a grown-up or À tes souhaits ! to a friend; the person answers Merci ! Who acts: someone, you, person. 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 --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 16 When someone sneezes, say À vos souhaits ! to a grown-up or À tes souhaits ! to a friend; the person answers Merci ! **Who acts:** someone, you, person · **What happens:** sneeze, say, answer · **To what, where:** vos souhaits, grown, Merci · **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 (someone, you, person), 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:16 # text = When someone sneezes, say À vos souhaits ! to a grown-up or À tes souhaits ! to a friend; the person answers Merci ! # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sneezes sneeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 À À PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 vos vo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 compound _ _ 8 souhaits souhait NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 À à ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 tes te NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 compound _ _ 18 souhaits souhait NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 27 Merci Merci PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sneeze** | present | someone | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | vos souhaits | a grown or tes souhaits | | | to a friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent souhait=Topic to grow=Recipient | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the person | | Merci | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent merci=Eventuality | 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:16`. **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, R7-rel-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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/15/) - next →: [Tu or vous? Manners in French, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/)