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title: For how your body feels French uses avoir: j'ai chaud (I'm hot), j'a… — Weather and seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: For how your body feels French uses avoir: j'ai chaud (I'm hot), j'ai froid (I'm cold); je suis chaud means something else in slang, so avoid it. Who acts: body, French, I, suis. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and seasons» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Weather and seasons, sentence 7

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For how your body feels French uses avoir: j'ai chaud (I'm hot), j'ai froid (I'm cold); je suis chaud means something else in slang, so avoid it.

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**Who acts:** body, French, I, suis · **What happens:** feel, use, be, chaud, mean, avoid · **To what, where:** avoir, something, froid · **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 (body, French, I, suis), 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:7
# text = For how your body feels French uses avoir: j'ai chaud (I'm hot), j'ai froid (I'm cold); je suis chaud means something else in slang, so avoid it.
# 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	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
6	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	avoir	avoir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	j'ai	j'ai	X	FW	_	11	compound	_	_
11	chaud	chaud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	j'ai	j'ai	X	FW	_	19	compound	_	_
19	froid	froid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
26	je	je	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
27	suis	sui	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	chaud	chaud	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	csubj	_	_
29	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	else	else	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | your body | avoir |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avoir=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present | French |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **chaud** | present | suis  je |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | French *not said here* | something |  |  |  | in slang | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot something=Theme in slang=Attribute |
| 7 | **avoid** | infinitive | French *not said here* | froid |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |

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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:7`.

**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.

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