Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 14

During the hour the short hand moves slowly towards the next number, so at 9:50 it is nearly on 10 while the hour is still 9.

Who acts: short hand, number, hour · What happens: move, be · To what, where: next number, 10, 9

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, number, hour), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moves	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moves	nsubj
7	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 moves	advmod
9	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 number	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 number	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 number	amod
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moves	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 9:50	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 9:50	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 9:50	case
16	9:50	9:50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 moves	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 10	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 10	cop
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	21 10	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 10	case
21	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 9:50	conj
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 9	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hour	det
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 9	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 9	cop
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 9	advmod
27	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 moves	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 moves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	the short hand		the next number	hour	slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards number=Trajectory
2	is	present	number		10		nearly property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the hour	9		still		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:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands.lesson:14.

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. 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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