Telling the time, sentence 3

Picture a Paris station: the board says 14h30, because French timetables use the 24-hour clock; take 12 away and you know it is half past two in the afternoon.

Who acts: you, board, French timetables · What happens: picture, say, use, take away, know, be · To what, where: Paris station, 14h30, hour clock, 12 · 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 (you, board, French timetables), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 station	det
3	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 station	compound
4	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 board	det
7	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 station	acl:relcl
9	14h30	14h30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 use	mark
12	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 timetables	amod
13	timetables	timetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 use	nsubj
14	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clock	det
16	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 hour	nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 24	punct
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clock	compound
19	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 use	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
21	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
22	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 take	obj
23	away	away	ADV	_	21 take	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 half	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 half	cop
29	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 know	ccomp
30	past	past	ADP	_	31 two	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 half	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 afternoon	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 afternoon	det
34	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 two	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a Paris station		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent station=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	the board	14h30		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 14h30=Topic
3	use	present	French timetables	the hour clock		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient
4	take away	infinitive		12	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12=Theme
5	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	board		half 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:3.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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