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title: Mademoiselle is an old word for miss; today madame is the safe word… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics
description: Mademoiselle is an old word for miss; today madame is the safe word for any grown-up woman, and official forms no longer use mademoiselle. Who acts: Mademoiselle, today madame, official forms. A sentence of the lesson «Tu or vous? Manners in French» of the french course of Mova's primary school with
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# Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 17

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Mademoiselle is an old word for miss; today madame is the safe word for any grown-up woman, and official forms no longer use mademoiselle.

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**Who acts:** Mademoiselle, today madame, official forms · **What happens:** be, grow up, use · **To what, where:** old word, safe word, mademoiselle

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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 (Mademoiselle, today madame, official forms), 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:17
# text = Mademoiselle is an old word for miss; today madame is the safe word for any grown-up woman, and official forms no longer use mademoiselle.
# 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): R4-particle ×1
1	Mademoiselle	mademoiselle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	madame	madame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
17	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=17:compound
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
28	mademoiselle	mademoiselle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Mademoiselle | a old word |  |  |  | for miss | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | today madame | the safe word |  |  |  | for any grown woman | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | infinitive | official forms | mademoiselle |  |  |  | long *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mademoiselle=Patient |

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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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**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): R4-particle ×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.

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