Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 10
For the long hand, each number on the clock face stands for 5 minutes, so the long hand on 8 means 40 minutes past (8 × 5 = 40).
Who acts: number, long hand · What happens: stand, mean · To what, where: minutes past
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 (number, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 10 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | compound |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 number | nmod |
| 12 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 minutes | case |
| 14 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 minutes | nummod |
| 15 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stands | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hand | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 hand | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hand | amod |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | nsubj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 8 | case |
| 22 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 hand | nmod |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stands | parataxis |
| 24 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 minutes | nummod |
| 25 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 past | compound |
| 26 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | obj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 × | punct |
| 28 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 × | nummod |
| 29 | × | × | SYM | Number=Sing | 26 past | appos |
| 30 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 × | nmod |
| 31 | = | = | SYM | _ | 30 5 | punct |
| 32 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 5 | conj |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 × | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | each number on the face | minute | for the long hand | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for hand=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mean | present | the long hand on 8 | minutes past | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Topic |
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:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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