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title: During the hour the short hand moves slowly towards the next number,… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: During the hour the short hand moves slowly towards the next number, so at 9:50 it is nearly on 10 while the hour is still 9. Who acts: short hand, number, hour. 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 depen
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# Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 14

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During the hour the short hand moves slowly towards the next number, so at 9:50 it is nearly on 10 while the hour is still 9.

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**Who acts:** short hand, number, hour · **What happens:** move, be · **To what, where:** next number, 10, 9

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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, number, hour), 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:14
# text = During the hour the short hand moves slowly towards the next number, so at 9:50 it is nearly on 10 while the hour is still 9.
# 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
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	9:50	9:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	advcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **move** | present | the short hand |  |  | the next number | hour | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards number=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | number |  |  | 10 |  | nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the hour | 9 |  |  | still |  | 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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**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. **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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