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title: A clock with hands is like a race track with two runners: the long h… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: A clock with hands is like a race track with two runners: the long hand races all the way round once every hour, and the short hand creeps round only once every twelve hours. Who acts: clock, short hand. A sentence of the lesson «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world cour
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# Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 0

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A clock with hands is like a race track with two runners: the long hand races all the way round once every hour, and the short hand creeps round only once every twelve hours.

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**Who acts:** clock, short hand · **What happens:** be, creep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world 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 (clock, short hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands.lesson:0
# text = A clock with hands is like a race track with two runners: the long hand races all the way round once every hour, and the short hand creeps round only once every twelve hours.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	round	round	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	creeps	creep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
31	round	round	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	advmod	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
35	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | a clock with hands |  |  |  |  | like a race track; with two runners and the hand races and all way | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep** | present | the short hand |  |  |  |  | once, round *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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