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title: The short hand tells the hour and the long hand tells the minutes. — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: The short hand tells the hour and the long hand tells the minutes. Who acts: short hand, long hand. A sentence of the lesson «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 1

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The short hand tells the hour and the long hand tells the minutes.

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**Who acts:** short hand, long hand · **What happens:** tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (short hand, long 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:1
# text = The short hand tells the hour and the long hand tells the minutes.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the short hand |  |  |  | hour |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the long hand |  |  |  | minute |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:world:101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands.lesson:1`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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