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title: Noon and midnight have their own words, midi and minuit, and the day… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics
description: Noon and midnight have their own words, midi and minuit, and the day is split into le matin, l'après-midi and le soir. Who acts: Noon, timetables. A sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Telling the time, sentence 4

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Noon and midnight have their own words, midi and minuit, and the day is split into le matin, l'après-midi and le soir.

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**Who acts:** Noon, timetables · **What happens:** have, split, word · **To what, where:** own words, day, matin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» of the french 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 (Noon, 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:4
# text = Noon and midnight have their own words, midi and minuit, and the day is split into le matin, l'après-midi and le soir.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	midi	midi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	minuit	minuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	matin	matin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	l'après	l'après	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
24	midi	midi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	soir	soir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Noon and midnight | timetables's own words |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **split** | present · passive |  | the day |  |  |  | into le matin and l'après and midi and le soir *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into matin=Result |
| 3 | **word** |  | timetables *= timetable* |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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:4`.

**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/).

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