Telling the time, sentence 0

To ask the time in French you say Quelle heure est-il ?, and the answer is Il est trois heures, word for word "it is three hours", which simply means three o'clock.

Who acts: you, answer, word · What happens: ask, say, be, mean · To what, where: French, heure est, trois heures, three hours, three o'clock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» 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, answer, word), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 French	case
6	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Quelle	Quelle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 heure	compound
10	heure	heure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 est	compound
11	est	est	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 il	punct
13	il	IL	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 est	nmod:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heures	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 heures	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heures	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 heures	cop
20	Il	Il	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 trois	compound
21	est	EST	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Il	flat
22	trois	troi	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 heures	compound
23	heures	heure	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 word	punct
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heures	appos
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 word	case
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 word	nmod
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 hours	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hours	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 hours	cop
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hours	nummod
32	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 word	parataxis
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 hours	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 means	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 means	nsubj
36	simply	simply	ADV	_	37 means	advmod
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 word	acl:relcl
38	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 o'clock	nummod
39	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 means	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	you not said here		French	time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	you	heure est il				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent est=Topic
3	is a	present	the answer	trois heures				tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	answer	three hours				tree rules
5	mean	present	word for word	three o'clock			simply property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent o'clock=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:012-telling-the-time.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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