--- title: Quel temps fait-il ? means "What's the weather like?"; Il pleut ("ee… — Weather and seasons · tree and pragmatics description: Quel temps fait-il ? means "What's the weather like?"; Il pleut ("eel PLUH") means "It's raining". Who acts: il, eel, It. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Weather and seasons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/) / 5 # Weather and seasons, sentence 5 Quel temps fait-il ? means "What's the weather like?"; Il pleut ("eel PLUH") means "It's raining". **Who acts:** il, eel, It · **What happens:** fait, mean, be, rain · **To what, where:** Quel temps · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (il, eel, It), 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:5 # text = Quel temps fait-il ? means "What's the weather like?"; Il pleut ("eel PLUH") means "It's raining". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Quel quel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 temps temp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 3 fait fait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 il il PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 nsubj _ _ 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Il Il PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 18 pleut pleut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 PLUH PLUH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 27 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 raining rain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 ccomp _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fait** | present | il | Quel temps | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | Il | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | like the weather | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | eel | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **rain** *in a quote* | present · progressive | It | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | 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. **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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Weather and seasons, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/4/) - next →: [Weather and seasons, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/)