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title: Tu as quel âge ? means "How old are you?"; âge is masculine, so it i… — Questions and simple sentences · tree and pragmatics
description: Tu as quel âge ? means "How old are you?"; âge is masculine, so it is quel, not quelle; heure (hour) is feminine, so it is Quelle heure est-il ? (What time is it?). Who acts: Tu, you, âge, heure. A sentence of the lesson «Questions and simple sentences» of the french course of Mova's primary school 
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# Questions and simple sentences, sentence 9

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Tu as quel âge ? means "How old are you?"; âge is masculine, so it is quel, not quelle; heure (hour) is feminine, so it is Quelle heure est-il ? (What time is it?).

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**Who acts:** Tu, you, âge, heure · **What happens:** mean, be, not be · **To what, where:** Quelle il, masculine, feminine, Quelle, heure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions and simple sentences» 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 (Tu, you, âge, heure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:030-questions-and-simple-sentences.lesson:9
# text = Tu as quel âge ? means "How old are you?"; âge is masculine, so it is quel, not quelle; heure (hour) is feminine, so it is Quelle heure est-il ? (What time is it?).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 030-questions-and-simple-sentences.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Tu	Tu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	quel	quel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	âge	âge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	âge	âge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	masculine	masculine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	quel	quel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	quelle	quelle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	heure	heure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	feminine	feminine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	Quelle	Quelle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
38	heure	heure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	list	_	_
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	_
41	il	IL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
43	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
44	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	45	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:WP:PronType=Int
45	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	appos	_	_
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mean** | present | Tu as quel âge | Quelle il |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent il=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | âge | masculine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | âge |  |  |  |  | quel *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **be** |  | âge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | heure | feminine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | heure | Quelle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | present |  | heure |  |  |  |  | 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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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