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title: Il neige means "It's snowing"; la neige is snow and un bonhomme de n… — Weather and seasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Il neige means "It's snowing"; la neige is snow and un bonhomme de neige is a snowman. Who acts: Il neige, 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.
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# Weather and seasons, sentence 9

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Il neige means "It's snowing"; la neige is snow and un bonhomme de neige is a snowman.

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**Who acts:** Il neige, It · **What happens:** mean, snow, be · **To what, where:** la, snow, snowman · **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 (Il neige, 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:9
# text = Il neige means "It's snowing"; la neige is snow and un bonhomme de neige is a snowman.
# 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	Il	Il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	neige	neige	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	snowing	snow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obj	_	_
11	neige	neige	X	FW	_	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bonhomme	bonhomme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	de	de	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	neige	neige	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	snowman	snowman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Il neige | la |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **snow** *in a quote* | present · progressive | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | snow and un bonhomme de neige |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a snowman |  |  |  |  | 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:9`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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