--- title: To ask the time in French you say Quelle heure est-il ?, and the ans… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:012-telling-the-time.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 012-telling-the-time.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 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Quelle Quelle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 heure heure NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 est est NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 13 il IL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 Il Il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 est EST PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 trois troi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 compound _ _ 23 heures heure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 parataxis _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 36 simply simply ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 38 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dates and birthdays, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/11-dates-and-birthdays/17/) - next →: [Telling the time, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/)