Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 1
The short hand tells the hour and the long hand tells the minutes.
Who acts: short hand, long hand · What happens: tell · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (short hand, long 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hand | amod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hour | det |
| 6 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tells | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hand | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tells | nsubj |
| 11 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tells | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 minutes | det |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tells | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the short hand | hour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the long hand | minute | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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