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title: For weather French uses il fait: il fait beau (it's nice), il fait c… — Weather and seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: For weather French uses il fait: il fait beau (it's nice), il fait chaud (it's hot), il fait froid (it's cold), il fait mauvais (it's bad), il fait gris (it's dull and grey). Who acts: French, weather, il. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and seasons» of the french course of Mova's primary school w
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# Weather and seasons, sentence 6

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For weather French uses il fait: il fait beau (it's nice), il fait chaud (it's hot), il fait froid (it's cold), il fait mauvais (it's bad), il fait gris (it's dull and grey).

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**Who acts:** French, weather, il · **What happens:** use, fait, be · **To what, where:** il fait, beau, chaud, froid, mauvais, gris

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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 (French, weather, il), 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:6
# text = For weather French uses il fait: il fait beau (it's nice), il fait chaud (it's hot), il fait froid (it's cold), il fait mauvais (it's bad), il fait gris (it's dull and grey).
# 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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	il	IL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fait	fait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	il	IL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	fait	fait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	xcomp	_	_
10	beau	beau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	il	IL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fait	fait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	chaud	chaud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	il	IL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	fait	fait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	froid	froid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	il	IL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
36	fait	fait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
37	mauvais	mauvais	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	il	IL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
45	fait	fait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
46	gris	gris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
47	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	50	punct	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	_
53	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	50	punct	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | French | il fait  il |  |  |  | for weather | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fait=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fait** | present | French *not said here* | beau |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | weather |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fait** | present | il | chaud |  |  |  | il *nmod:unmarked*; il *nmod:unmarked*; il *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | weather |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fait** | present | il *not said here* | froid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | weather |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **fait** | present | il *not said here* | mauvais |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | present | weather |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **fait** | present | il *not said here* | gris |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **is** | present | weather |  |  |  |  | dull *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **be** |  | 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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**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.

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