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title: On an analogue clock (a clock with hands) the short hand shows the h… — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: On an analogue clock (a clock with hands) the short hand shows the hour and the long hand shows the minutes; each number on the face stands for 5 minutes, so the long hand on 4 means 20 minutes past. Who acts: short hand, long hand, number. A sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning th
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# Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 0

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On an analogue clock (a clock with hands) the short hand shows the hour and the long hand shows the minutes; each number on the face stands for 5 minutes, so the long hand on 4 means 20 minutes past.

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**Who acts:** short hand, long hand, number · **What happens:** show, stand, mean · **To what, where:** analogue clock, minutes past

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday 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, number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:0
# text = On an analogue clock (a clock with hands) the short hand shows the hour and the long hand shows the minutes; each number on the face stands for 5 minutes, so the long hand on 4 means 20 minutes past.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	analogue	analogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nmod	_	_
41	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
42	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	compound	_	_
44	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | the short hand |  |  | a analogue clock | 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 |
| 3 | **stand** | present | each number on the face |  |  |  | minute |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the long hand on 4 | minutes past |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Topic |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×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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