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title: Quelle est la date aujourd'hui ? means "What's the date today?"; a f… — Dates and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Quelle est la date aujourd'hui ? means "What's the date today?"; a full answer is C'est le quatorze octobre, or with the day, C'est mardi quatorze octobre. Who acts: Quelle, full answer. A sentence of the lesson «Dates and birthdays» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Dates and birthdays, sentence 13

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Quelle est la date aujourd'hui ? means "What's the date today?"; a full answer is C'est le quatorze octobre, or with the day, C'est mardi quatorze octobre.

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**Who acts:** Quelle, full answer · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** date, C'est quatorze octobre · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates and birthdays» 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, full answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:011-dates-and-birthdays.lesson:13
# text = Quelle est la date aujourd'hui ? means "What's the date today?"; a full answer is C'est le quatorze octobre, or with the day, C'est mardi quatorze octobre.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 011-dates-and-birthdays.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): no change
1	Quelle	Quelle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	est	est	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	la	la	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	aujourd'hui	aujourd'hui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	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	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
13	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	C'est	C'est	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
22	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	quatorze	quatorze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	octobre	octobre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	C'est	C'est	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
32	mardi	mardi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	quatorze	quatorze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	octobre	octobre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Quelle |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the date |  |  | today |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a full answer | C'est quatorze octobre or C'est mardi quatorze octobre |  |  |  |  | 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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**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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