Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 20

Mixing up the two hands is the most common clock mistake: always find the short hand first for the hour.

Who acts: Mixing · What happens: mix up, be, find · To what, where: two hands, common clock mistake, short hand

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 (Mixing), 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	Mixing	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 mistake	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Mixing	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hands	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hands	nummod
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mixing	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mistake	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mistake	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 common	advmod
9	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mistake	amod
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mistake	compound
11	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
13	always	always	ADV	_	14 find	advmod
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mistake	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hand	det
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hand	amod
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 find	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 hour	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hour	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 mistake	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mix up	gerund		the two hands			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	is a	present	Mixing	the common clock mistake			tree rules
3	find	infinitive		the short hand	hour	always, first property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:20.

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): 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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