Telling the time, sentence 15

With a clock face people often say trois heures moins vingt (twenty to three); with a digital clock deux heures quarante (2:40) is fine too.

Who acts: people, deux heures · What happens: say, be · To what, where: trois · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» 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 (people, deux heures), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 face	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 face	det
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 face	compound
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	trois	trois	X	Foreign=Yes	7 say	obj
9	heures	heure	X	Foreign=Yes	8 trois	flat:foreign
10	moins	moins	X	Foreign=Yes	8 trois	flat:foreign
11	vingt	vingt	X	Foreign=Yes	8 trois	flat:foreign
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 twenty	punct
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 trois	appos
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 three	case
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 twenty	nmod
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 twenty	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	23 heures	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 clock	det
20	digital	digital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 clock	amod
21	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 deux	compound
22	deux	deux	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heures	compound
23	heures	heure	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fine	nsubj
24	quarante	quarante	X	Foreign=Yes	23 heures	conj
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 2:40	punct
26	2:40	2:40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 heures	appos
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 2:40	punct
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fine	cop
29	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	parataxis
30	too	too	ADV	_	29 fine	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people	trois				with a clock face; often property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent trois=Theme with face=Manner
2	is	present	deux heures					fine property	tree rules

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:french:012-telling-the-time.lesson:15.

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): R5-strong ×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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