Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 16

When the long hand is past 6, people often count the minutes "to" the next hour: the long hand on 11 means five to the hour.

Who acts: long hand, people · What happens: be, count, mean · To what, where: five

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 (long hand, people), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 past	advmod
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	6 past	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 past	cop
6	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 count	advcl
7	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 past	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 count	punct
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 count	nsubj
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 count	advmod
11	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 minutes	det
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 count	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 hour	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	19 hour	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hour	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hour	amod
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 count	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 count	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hand	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 means	nsubj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 11	case
25	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 hand	nmod
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 count	parataxis
27	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 means	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 hour	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hour	det
30	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 five	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 count	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the long hand			6 obl; past property	tree rules
2	count	present	people		hour; minute	often property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	mean	present	the long hand on 11	five	to the hour		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=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:16.

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 ×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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