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title: le matin is the morning, l'après-midi (after-midday) is the afternoo… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics
description: le matin is the morning, l'après-midi (after-midday) is the afternoon and le soir is the evening, from about 6 pm. Who acts: le matin, morning. 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 12

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le matin is the morning, l'après-midi (after-midday) is the afternoon and le soir is the evening, from about 6 pm.

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**Who acts:** le matin, morning · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** morning, evening

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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 (le matin, morning), 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:12
# text = le matin is the morning, l'après-midi (after-midday) is the afternoon and le soir is the evening, from about 6 pm.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	matin	matin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	l'après	l'après	NOUN	NN	_	5	appos	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	midi	midi	NOUN	NN	_	7	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	soir	soir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	_
28	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23: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 | le matin | the morning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the morning | the evening |  |  |  |  | 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:012-telling-the-time.lesson:12`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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