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title: Picture Archie at the school gate saying "Salut, tu vas bien ?" to h… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Archie at the school gate saying "Salut, tu vas bien ?" to his French teacher: it sounds as cheeky as calling her "mate". Who acts: you, gate. 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
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# Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 2

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Picture Archie at the school gate saying "Salut, tu vas bien ?" to his French teacher: it sounds as cheeky as calling her "mate".

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**Who acts:** you, gate · **What happens:** picture, say, sound, call · **To what, where:** Archie, school gate, French teacher, vous · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, gate), 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:2
# text = Picture Archie at the school gate saying "Salut, tu vas bien ?" to his French teacher: it sounds as cheeky as calling her "mate".
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Archie	Archie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Salut	salut	INTJ	UH	_	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	tu	tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
12	vas	vas	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
13	bien	bien	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=other, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Archie |  | the school gate |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent archie=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  | Archie's French teacher |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent salut=Topic to teacher=Recipient |
| 3 | **sound** | present | gate |  |  |  |  | cheeky *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **call** | gerund | gate *not said here* | vous |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme mate=Result |

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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:2`.

**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, 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/).

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