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title: À quelle heure ? means "At what time?"; in France dinner is often la… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics
description: À quelle heure ? means "At what time?"; in France dinner is often late, around 19h30 or 20h. Who acts: quelle heure, dinner. 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 14

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À quelle heure ? means "At what time?"; in France dinner is often late, around 19h30 or 20h.

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**Who acts:** quelle heure, dinner · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** France

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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 (quelle heure, dinner), 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:14
# text = À quelle heure ? means "At what time?"; in France dinner is often late, around 19h30 or 20h.
# 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	À	à	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	quelle	quelle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heure	heure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	At	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	around	around	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	19h30	19h30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	20h	20h	NUM	CD	NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 heure |  |  |  | time |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | dinner |  |  | France |  | 19h30 *obl*; late, often *property* | 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: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): 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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