Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 6

At half past four it sits halfway between 4 and 5, and at 9:50 it is almost on the 10, but the hour is still 9 until the long hand reaches 12.

Who acts: number, hour, long hand · What happens: sit, be, reach · To what, where: past four, 10, 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 (number, hour, long hand), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 four	case
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 four	det:predet
3	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 four	amod
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sits	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sits	nsubj
6	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	9 4	advmod
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 4	case
9	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 sits	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 5	cc
11	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 4	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 9:50	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 9:50	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 9:50	case
15	9:50	9:50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 sits	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 10	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 10	cop
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 10	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 10	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 10	det
21	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 sits	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 9	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 9	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hour	det
25	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 9	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 9	cop
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 9	advmod
28	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 sits	conj
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	33 reaches	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hand	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hand	amod
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reaches	nsubj
33	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 9	advcl
34	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 reaches	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	number		half past four		between 4; at 9:50	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at four=Location
2	is	present	number		the 10		almost property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the hour	9		still		tree rules
4	reach	present	the long hand	12				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 12=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:6.

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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