Telling the time, sentence 14

À quelle heure ? means "At what time?"; in France dinner is often late, around 19h30 or 20h.

Who acts: quelle heure, dinner · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: France

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 (quelle heure, dinner), 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	À	à	ADP	_	3 heure	case
2	quelle	quelle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heure	amod
3	heure	heure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 heure	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
7	At	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 late	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 France	case
14	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 late	obl
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 late	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 late	cop
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 late	advmod
18	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 19h30	punct
20	around	around	ADV	_	21 19h30	advmod
21	19h30	19h30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 late	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 20h	cc
23	20h	20h	NUM	NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	21 19h30	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 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	quelle heure				time		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	dinner			France		19h30 obl; late, often property	tree rules

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: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): 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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