--- title: Picture a Paris station: the board says 14h30, because French timeta… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a Paris station: the board says 14h30, because French timetables use the 24-hour clock; take 12 away and you know it is half past two in the afternoon. Who acts: you, board, French timetables. 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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 (you, board, French timetables), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:012-telling-the-time.lesson:3 # text = Picture a Paris station: the board says 14h30, because French timetables use the 24-hour clock; take 12 away and you know it is half past two in the afternoon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 012-telling-the-time.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 14h30 14h30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 timetables timetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 22 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obj _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 26 ccomp _ _ 30 past past ADP IN _ 31 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a Paris station | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent station=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the board | 14h30 | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 14h30=Topic | | 3 | **use** | present | French timetables | the hour clock | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient | | 4 | **take away** | infinitive | | 12 | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12=Theme | | 5 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | present | board | | | | | half *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:french:012-telling-the-time.lesson:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Telling the time, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/1/) - next →: [Telling the time, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/)