Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 0
On an analogue clock (a clock with hands) the short hand shows the hour and the long hand shows the minutes; each number on the face stands for 5 minutes, so the long hand on 4 means 20 minutes past.
Who acts: short hand, long hand, number · What happens: show, stand, mean · To what, where: analogue clock, minutes past
This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday 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 (short hand, long hand, number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 clock | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 clock | det |
| 3 | analogue | analogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clock | compound |
| 4 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | obl |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 clock | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 clock | det |
| 7 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clock | appos |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clock | nmod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 clock | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hand | amod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | nsubj |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hour | det |
| 16 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shows | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hand | amod |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shows | nsubj |
| 21 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shows | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 minutes | det |
| 23 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shows | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 stands | punct |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 number | det |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stands | nsubj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 face | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 face | det |
| 29 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 number | nmod |
| 30 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shows | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 minutes | case |
| 32 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 minutes | nummod |
| 33 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 stands | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hand | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 hand | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hand | det |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hand | amod |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 means | nsubj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 4 | case |
| 40 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 hand | nmod |
| 41 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 shows | advcl |
| 42 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 minutes | nummod |
| 43 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 past | compound |
| 44 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 means | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the short hand | a analogue clock | hour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | show | present | the long hand | minute | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | each number on the face | minute | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | the long hand on 4 | minutes past | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Topic |
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, 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:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×1. 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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