--- title: Clock time uses diǎn, "dot": "jǐ diǎn le?" is "what time is it?", "s… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: Clock time uses diǎn, "dot": "jǐ diǎn le?" is "what time is it?", "sān diǎn bàn" is half past three; but when Lín's mum says "jǐ diǎn le?" at the door with her arms crossed, it means "you're late!". Who acts: Clock time, le, mum, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clock time, le, mum, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.lesson:2 # text = Clock time uses diǎn, "dot": "jǐ diǎn le?" is "what time is it?", "sān diǎn bàn" is half past three; but when Lín's mum says "jǐ diǎn le?" at the door with her arms crossed, it means "you're late!". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.lesson # annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 diǎn diǎn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 jǐ jǐ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 diǎn diǎn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 parataxis _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 sān sān X FW Foreign=Yes 28 amod _ _ 27 diǎn diǎn X FW Foreign=Yes 26 flat _ _ 28 bàn bàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 33 amod _ _ 32 past past ADP IN _ 33 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 37 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 advcl _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 jǐ jǐ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 ccomp _ _ 43 diǎn diǎn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 47 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 50 with with ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nmod _ _ 53 crossed cross VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 acl _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 57 " " PUNCT `` _ 60 punct _ _ 58 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 59 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 cop _ _ 60 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 ccomp _ _ 61 ! ! PUNCT . _ 60 punct _ _ 62 " " PUNCT '' _ 60 punct _ _ 63 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Clock time | diǎn | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent diǎn=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **jǐ** *in a quote* | past | Clock time *not said here* | diǎn le | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | le | | | | time | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | le | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | past half three | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Lín's mum | | | the door with mum's arms | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **jǐ** *in a quote* | past | | diǎn le | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **cross** | participle | | mum's arms *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | late *property* | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chinese-street:022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.lesson:2`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/1/) - next →: [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/)