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title: "In" a season is en été, en automne, en hiver, but au printemps, bec… — Weather and seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: "In" a season is en été, en automne, en hiver, but au printemps, because printemps starts with a consonant. Who acts: season, printemps. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and seasons» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Weather and seasons, sentence 13

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"In" a season is en été, en automne, en hiver, but au printemps, because printemps starts with a consonant.

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**Who acts:** season, printemps · **What happens:** be, start · **To what, where:** en été

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather and seasons» 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 (season, printemps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:013-weather-and-seasons.lesson:13
# text = "In" a season is en été, en automne, en hiver, but au printemps, because printemps starts with a consonant.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 013-weather-and-seasons.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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	été	été	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	automne	automne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	hiver	hiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	printemps	printemp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	printemps	printemp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- 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 | a season | en été and en automne and en hiver but au printemps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | present | printemps |  |  |  |  | with a consonant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with consonant=Subeventuality |

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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:013-weather-and-seasons.lesson:13`.

**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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