Telling the time, sentence 7

French timetables, cinemas and shops use the 24-hour clock written with h: 14h30 is quatorze heures trente, half past two in the afternoon.

Who acts: French timetables · What happens: use, write, be · To what, where: hour clock, 14h30 quatorze heures

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 (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	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 timetables	amod
2	timetables	timetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cinemas	punct
4	cinemas	cinema	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 timetables	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shops	cc
6	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 timetables	conj
7	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clock	det
9	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 hour	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 24	punct
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clock	compound
12	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
13	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 clock	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 h	case
15	h	h	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 written	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 heures	punct
17	14h30	14h30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 heures	nummod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 heures	cop
19	quatorze	quatorze	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heures	compound
20	heures	heure	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	obl
21	trente	trente	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	20 heures	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heures	punct
23	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	25 two	det:predet
24	past	past	ADP	_	25 two	case
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 heures	appos
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 afternoon	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 afternoon	det
28	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 two	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	French timetables and cinemas and shops	the hour clock		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient
2	write	participle		the hour clock not said here	with h	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		14h30 quatorze heures and trente		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:7.

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 ×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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