Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 3
The clock face is a circle cut into 12 equal parts.
Who acts: clock face · What happens: be, cut · To what, where: circle
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 (clock face), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 face | det |
| 2 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 face | compound |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 circle | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 circle | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 circle | det |
| 6 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 circle | acl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 parts | case |
| 9 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 parts | nummod |
| 10 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 parts | amod |
| 11 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 circle | 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 | is a | present | the clock face | a circle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | participle | a circle not said here | into 12 equal parts | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into part=Patient |
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:3.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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