Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 12

Pardon ! means sorry or excuse me when you bump into someone or squeeze past; Excusez-moi ! is the polite "excuse me" to ask for help.

Who acts: Pardon, you, Excusez · What happens: mean, excuse, bump, squeeze, be, ask · To what, where: me, someone, polite, Merci means · 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 (Pardon, you, Excusez), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Pardon	punct
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 excuse	cc
6	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 excuse	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 bump	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 bump	nsubj
10	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 excuse	advcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 someone	case
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 bump	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 squeeze	cc
14	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bump	conj
15	past	past	ADP	_	14 squeeze	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 Excusez	punct
17	Excusez	Excusez	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 polite	nsubj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Excusez	punct
19	moi	moi	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Excusez	flat
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Excusez	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 polite	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 excuse	det
23	polite	polite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	conj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 excuse	punct
25	excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 polite	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 excuse	obj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 excuse	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 ask	mark
29	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 excuse	advcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 help	case
31	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ask	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Pardon			sorry property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	excuse	infinitive	Pardon not said here	me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	bump	present	you		someone		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into someone=Location
4	squeeze	present	you not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	Excusez	polite			tree rules
6	excuse in a quote	infinitive		Merci means = means			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive				for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, 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:12.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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