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title: Quel jour sommes-nous ? means "What day is it?"; the answer is Nous… — Days of the week and months · tree and pragmatics
description: Quel jour sommes-nous ? means "What day is it?"; the answer is Nous sommes mardi, or, more casually, On est mardi. Who acts: Quel, day, answer. A sentence of the lesson «Days of the week and months» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Days of the week and months, sentence 14

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Quel jour sommes-nous ? means "What day is it?"; the answer is Nous sommes mardi, or, more casually, On est mardi.

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**Who acts:** Quel, day, answer · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** mois, Nous sommes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Days of the week and months» 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 (Quel, day, answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:010-days-of-the-week-and-months.lesson:14
# text = Quel jour sommes-nous ? means "What day is it?"; the answer is Nous sommes mardi, or, more casually, On est mardi.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 010-days-of-the-week-and-months.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Quel	Quel	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	nsubj	_	_
2	jour	jour	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	sommes	somme	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	nous	nous	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WP:PronType=Int
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	Nous	Nous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	sommes	somme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
21	mardi	mardi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	casually	casually	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	On	on	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat:foreign	_	_
29	est	est	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	flat:foreign	_	_
30	mardi	mardi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Quel |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | what day | mois |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the answer | Nous sommes and mardi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:010-days-of-the-week-and-months.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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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