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title: beau means beautiful or handsome, but il fait beau simply means the… — Weather and seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: beau means beautiful or handsome, but il fait beau simply means the weather is sunny and nice. Who acts: beau, il, weather. 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 16

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beau means beautiful or handsome, but il fait beau simply means the weather is sunny and nice.

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**Who acts:** beau, il, weather · **What happens:** mean, fait, be · **To what, where:** beau · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (beau, il, weather), 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:16
# text = beau means beautiful or handsome, but il fait beau simply means the weather is sunny and nice.
# 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	beau	beau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	il	il	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Foreign=Yes|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fait	fait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	beau	beau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:ccomp
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | beau |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fait** | present | il | beau |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | beau *not said here* |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the weather |  |  |  |  | sunny *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:013-weather-and-seasons.lesson:16`.

**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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