Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 13

In Britain and Ireland "half four" is short for half past four, 4:30; it does not mean half of four.

Who acts: half four, half · What happens: be, not mean · To what, where: Britain, half

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 (half four, half), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Britain	case
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 short	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Ireland	cc
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Britain	conj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 four	punct
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 four	compound
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 short	nsubj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 four	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 short	cop
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 four	case
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 short	obl
13	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 four	amod
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 short	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 four	punct
16	4:30	4:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 four	flat
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 mean	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 mean	nsubj
19	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 mean	advmod
21	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 short	parataxis
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 mean	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 four	case
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 half	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 short	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	half four			Britain and Ireland		for past four; half obl; short property	tree rules
2	not mean	present · do-support	half	half of four					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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:13.

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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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