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title: Heure is a feminine word, so one o'clock is une heure, and from two… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics
description: Heure is a feminine word, so one o'clock is une heure, and from two o'clock on it takes an s: deux heures. Who acts: Heure, one o'clock, it. A sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Telling the time, sentence 1

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Heure is a feminine word, so one o'clock is une heure, and from two o'clock on it takes an s: deux heures.

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**Who acts:** Heure, one o'clock, it · **What happens:** be, take · **To what, where:** feminine word, une heure, s

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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 (Heure, one o'clock, it), 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:1
# text = Heure is a feminine word, so one o'clock is une heure, and from two o'clock on it takes an s: deux heures.
# 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	Heure	Heure	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	une	une	X	FW	_	12	flat:foreign	_	_
12	heure	heure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	deux	deux	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	heures	heure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Heure | a feminine word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | one o'clock | une heure and two o'clock and deux heures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | present | it | a s |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent s=Theme |

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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:012-telling-the-time.lesson:1`.

**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/).

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