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title: France uses degrees Celsius, like the UK: il fait vingt degrés (20 °… — Weather and seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: France uses degrees Celsius, like the UK: il fait vingt degrés (20 °C) is warm, a T-shirt day; 0 °C is freezing; 20 °C is about 68 °F. Who acts: France, il, degrés, 0 ° C. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and seasons» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Weather and seasons, sentence 14

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France uses degrees Celsius, like the UK: il fait vingt degrés (20 °C) is warm, a T-shirt day; 0 °C is freezing; 20 °C is about 68 °F.

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**Who acts:** France, il, degrés, 0 ° C, 20 · **What happens:** use, vingt, be, freeze · **To what, where:** degrees, 68

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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 (France, il, degrés, 0 ° C), 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:14
# text = France uses degrees Celsius, like the UK: il fait vingt degrés (20 °C) is warm, a T-shirt day; 0 °C is freezing; 20 °C is about 68 °F.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	il	il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
11	fait	fait	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	_
12	vingt	vingt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	degrés	degré	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
15	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	°	°	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	list	_	_
17	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	°	°	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
34	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nsubj	_	_
35	°	°	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	about	about	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	68	68	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
40	°	°	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	list	_	_
41	F	f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:unmarked	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **use** | present | France | degrees  Celsius |  |  | day | like the UK | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Patient |
| 2 | **vingt** | past | il |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | degrés |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **freeze** | present · progressive | 0 ° C |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | 20 ° C | 68 |  |  |  | about *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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**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): R5-strong ×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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