Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 7
Many clocks also have a thin, fast second hand that goes round once a minute, and old or fancy clocks may write their numbers as Roman numerals, where I is 1, V is 5 and X is 10.
Who acts: Many clocks, thin fast second hand, old clocks, I, V, X · What happens: have, go round, write, be · To what, where: thin fast second hand, numbers, 1, 5, 10
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 (Many clocks, thin fast second hand, old clocks, I), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clocks | amod |
| 2 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hand | det |
| 6 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thin | punct |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 goes | nsubj |
| 12 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | acl:relcl |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 once | advmod |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 goes | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 minute | det |
| 16 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 once | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 write | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 old | cc |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 clocks | amod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 fancy | cc |
| 21 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 old | conj |
| 22 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 write | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 write | aux |
| 24 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 numbers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 write | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 numerals | case |
| 28 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 numerals | amod |
| 29 | numerals | numeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 write | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 where | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 1 | advmod |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 1 | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 1 | cop |
| 34 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 have | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 5 | punct |
| 36 | V | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 5 | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 5 | cop |
| 38 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 1 | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 10 | cc |
| 40 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 10 | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 10 | cop |
| 42 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 5 | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many clocks | a thin fast second hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go round | present | a thin fast second hand | once property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | write | may | old clocks | hands's numbers | as Roman numerals | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent number=Result as numeral=Attribute | |||
| 4 | is a | present | I | 1 | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | V | 5 | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | X | 10 | tree rules |
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:7.
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, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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