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title: French timetables, cinemas and shops use the 24-hour clock written w… — Telling the time · tree and pragmatics
description: French timetables, cinemas and shops use the 24-hour clock written with h: 14h30 is quatorze heures trente, half past two in the afternoon. Who acts: French timetables. A sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Telling the time, sentence 7

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French timetables, cinemas and shops use the 24-hour clock written with h: 14h30 is quatorze heures trente, half past two in the afternoon.

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**Who acts:** French timetables · **What happens:** use, write, be · **To what, where:** hour clock, 14h30 quatorze heures

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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 (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:7
# text = French timetables, cinemas and shops use the 24-hour clock written with h: 14h30 is quatorze heures trente, 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	timetables	timetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cinemas	cinema	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	h	h	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	14h30	14h30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	quatorze	quatorze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	heures	heure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
21	trente	trente	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
23	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
24	past	past	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **use** | present | French timetables and cinemas and shops | the hour clock |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | the hour clock *not said here* |  |  |  | with h | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 14h30 quatorze heures and trente |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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. **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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