--- title: When in doubt, use vous: a grown-up will tell you if they want you t… — Tu or vous? Manners in French · tree and pragmatics description: When in doubt, use vous: a grown-up will tell you if they want you to say tu. Who acts: you, grown up, phrases. 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 every clause. --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 4 When in doubt, use vous: a grown-up will tell you if they want you to say tu. **Who acts:** you, grown up, phrases · **What happens:** use, grow, tell, want, say · **To what, where:** vous, doubt, you, tu · **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 (you, grown up, phrases), 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:4 # text = When in doubt, use vous: a grown-up will tell you if they want you to say tu. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 vous vous X FW Foreign=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 tu tu X FW Foreign=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | vous | | doubt | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vous=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | a grown up | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | phrases *= phrase* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | tu | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tu=Topic | 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:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/3/) - next →: [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/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/)