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title: For the long hand, each number on the clock face stands for 5 minute… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the long hand, each number on the clock face stands for 5 minutes, so the long hand on 8 means 40 minutes past (8 × 5 = 40). Who acts: number, 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 dependenc
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# Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 10

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For the long hand, each number on the clock face stands for 5 minutes, so the long hand on 8 means 40 minutes past (8 × 5 = 40).

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**Who acts:** number, long hand · **What happens:** stand, mean · **To what, where:** minutes past

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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 (number, 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:10
# text = For the long hand, each number on the clock face stands for 5 minutes, so the long hand on 8 means 40 minutes past (8 × 5 = 40).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
24	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	compound	_	_
26	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
28	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
31	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	30	punct	_	_
32	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	conj	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **stand** | present | each number on the face |  |  |  | minute | for the long hand | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for hand=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the long hand on 8 | minutes past |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Topic |

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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:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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