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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 use	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 doubt	case
3	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 doubt	punct
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	vous	vous	X	Foreign=Yes	5 use	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 up	det
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 up	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 use	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 want	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 want	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 want	xcomp
21	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	20 say	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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, 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.

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