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title: heure is feminine: Il est une heure (one o'clock) has no s; Il est d… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics
description: heure is feminine: Il est une heure (one o'clock) has no s; Il est deux heures (two o'clock) has an s. Who acts: heure, Il. 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 6

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heure is feminine: Il est une heure (one o'clock) has no s; Il est deux heures (two o'clock) has an s.

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**Who acts:** heure, Il · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** heure, s, 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, Il), 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:6
# text = heure is feminine: Il est une heure (one o'clock) has no s; Il est deux heures (two o'clock) has an s.
# 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	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	_	13	parataxis	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Il	Il	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	est	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	une	une	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heure	heure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	s	s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	Il	Il	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	deux	deux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	heures	heure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	s.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
```

## 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 | **is** | present | heure |  |  |  |  | feminine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Il | une heure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | no s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | a s. |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent s.=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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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