Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 18
On a Roman clock I = 1, V = 5 and X = 10, so III is 3, VI is 6, IX is 9 and XII is 12; some clocks show 4 as IIII because clockmakers liked how it looked.
Who acts: I, III, IX, XII, clocks, clockmakers · What happens: =, be, show, like, look · To what, where: 1 V, Roman clock, 3, 6, 9, 12
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 (I, III, IX, XII), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 clock | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 clock | det |
| 3 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clock | amod |
| 4 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 = | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 = | nsubj |
| 6 | = | = | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 V | nummod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1 | punct |
| 9 | V | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 = | obj |
| 10 | = | = | SYM | _ | 11 5 | case |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 = | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 10 | cc |
| 13 | X | X | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 10 | vocative |
| 14 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 13 X | punct |
| 15 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 5 | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 6 | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 6 | advmod |
| 18 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 24 6 | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 3 | cop |
| 20 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 = | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 6 | punct |
| 22 | VI | VI | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 24 6 | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 6 | cop |
| 24 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 3 | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 9 | punct |
| 26 | IX | IX | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 9 | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 9 | cop |
| 28 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 6 | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 12 | cc |
| 30 | XII | xii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 12 | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 12 | cop |
| 32 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 9 | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 show | punct |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 clocks | det |
| 35 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 show | nsubj |
| 36 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 = | conj |
| 37 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 show | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 IIII | case |
| 39 | IIII | iiii | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 36 show | obl |
| 40 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 42 liked | mark |
| 41 | clockmakers | clockmaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 liked | nsubj |
| 42 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 show | advcl |
| 43 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 looked | advmod |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 looked | nsubj |
| 45 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 liked | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 = | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | = | present | I | 1 V | a Roman clock | = 5 | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | present | 3 | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | III | 6 | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | IX | 9 | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | XII | 12 | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | show | present | some clocks | 4 | as IIII | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 4=Recipient | |||
| 7 | like | past | clockmakers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 8 | look | past | clock | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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