Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 0

A clock with hands is like a race track with two runners: the long hand races all the way round once every hour, and the short hand creeps round only once every twelve hours.

Who acts: clock, short hand · What happens: be, creep

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world 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 (clock, short hand), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 track	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 hands	case
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clock	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 track	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 track	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 track	det
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 track	compound
9	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 runners	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 runners	nummod
12	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 track	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 races	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 races	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 races	compound
17	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 runners	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 way	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 races	conj
21	round	round	ADV	_	22 once	advmod
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 hour	advmod
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 hour	det
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 creeps	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 creeps	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hand	det
28	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hand	amod
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 creeps	nsubj
30	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 races	conj
31	round	round	ADV	_	30 creeps	advmod
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 once	advmod
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 creeps	advmod
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 hours	det
35	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 hours	nummod
36	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 once	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 track	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a clock with hands					like a race track; with two runners and the hand races and all way	tree rules
2	creep	present	the short hand					once, round property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands.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): R5-strong ×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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