Tu or vous? Manners in French, sentence 14
Je veux means "I want" and can sound like a toddler demanding; Je voudrais ("zhuh voo-DRAY") means "I would like" and is the polite way to ask.
Who acts: Je veux, Merci means, Je · What happens: mean, want, sound, demand, like, be · To what, where: polite way · 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 (Je veux, Merci means, Je), 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 | Je | Je | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 veux | compound |
| 2 | veux | veux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sound | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sound | aux |
| 10 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 means | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 toddler | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 toddler | det |
| 13 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sound | obl |
| 14 | demanding | demand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sound | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
| 16 | Je | Je | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 means | nsubj |
| 17 | voudrais | voudrais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Je | flat |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 DRAY | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 DRAY | punct |
| 20 | zhuh | zhuh | INTJ | _ | 23 DRAY | discourse |
| 21 | voo | voo | ADV | _ | 23 DRAY | advmod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 DRAY | punct |
| 23 | DRAY | dray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Je | appos |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 DRAY | punct |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 DRAY | punct |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | parataxis |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 like | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 like | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 like | aux |
| 30 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 means | ccomp |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 like | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 way | cc |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 way | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 way | det |
| 35 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 way | amod |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 ask | mark |
| 38 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 way | acl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Je veux | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | Merci means = means | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | sound | can | Je veux not said here | like a toddler | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | gerund | Je veux not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | Je | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | like in a quote | would | Merci means = means | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | Je not said here | the polite way | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Je not said here | 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:14.
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, R6-punct-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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/5-tu-or-vous-manners-in-french/14/