Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 5
The short hand slides slowly between the numbers as the hour goes by.
Who acts: short hand, hour · What happens: slide, go by · To what, where: numbers
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hand | amod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slides | nsubj |
| 4 | slides | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 slides | advmod |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 numbers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 numbers | det |
| 8 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slides | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 goes | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hour | det |
| 11 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | nsubj |
| 12 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slides | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADV | _ | 12 goes | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slides | 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 | slide | present | the short hand | the numbers | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between number=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go by | present | the hour | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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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