--- title: Combien ? means "how many?" or "how much?"; Tu as combien de bonbons… — Numbers 21 to 69 · tree and pragmatics description: Combien ? means "how many?" or "how much?"; Tu as combien de bonbons ? means "How many sweets have you got?" and wants a number for an answer. Who acts: Combien, Tu, you. A sentence of the lesson «Numbers 21 to 69» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/13/) [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/) / [Numbers 21 to 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/) / 13 # Numbers 21 to 69, sentence 13 Combien ? means "how many?" or "how much?"; Tu as combien de bonbons ? means "How many sweets have you got?" and wants a number for an answer. **Who acts:** Combien, Tu, you · **What happens:** mean, get, want · **To what, where:** many, many sweets, number · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers 21 to 69» 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 (Combien, Tu, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:007-numbers-21-to-69.lesson:13 # text = Combien ? means "how many?" or "how much?"; Tu as combien de bonbons ? means "How many sweets have you got?" and wants a number for an answer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 007-numbers-21-to-69.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 ×3 1 Combien Combien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obj _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 Tu Tu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 combien combien ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 20 flat:foreign _ _ 20 bonbons bonbon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 24 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 ccomp _ _ 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Combien | many | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | Tu as combien de bonbons | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | many sweets | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweet=Stimulus | | 4 | **want** | present | Tu as combien de bonbons *not said here* | a number | | | | for a answer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot number=Theme | 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:007-numbers-21-to-69.lesson:13`. **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 ×3. **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: [Numbers 21 to 69, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/12/) - next →: [Numbers 21 to 69, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/)