Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 8
On a clock with hands, the short hand shows the hour and the long hand shows the minutes.
Who acts: short hand, long hand · What happens: show · To what, where: clock
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, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 clock | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clock | det |
| 3 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shows | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clock | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 clock | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hand | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hand | amod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shows | nsubj |
| 10 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hour | det |
| 12 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shows | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shows | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shows | nsubj |
| 17 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shows | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 minutes | det |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shows | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shows | 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 | show | present | the short hand | a clock with hands | hour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | show | present | the long hand | minute | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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.
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