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title: A digital clock shows the hour before the colon and the minutes afte… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: A digital clock shows the hour before the colon and the minutes after it, so 06:05 is five past six; the 0 in front just fills the space. Who acts: digital clock, 06:05, 0. A sentence of the lesson «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 15

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A digital clock shows the hour before the colon and the minutes after it, so 06:05 is five past six; the 0 in front just fills the space.

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**Who acts:** digital clock, 06:05, 0 · **What happens:** show, be, fill · **To what, where:** five, space

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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 (digital clock, 06:05, 0), 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:15
# text = A digital clock shows the hour before the colon and the minutes after it, so 06:05 is five past six; the 0 in front just fills the space.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	digital	digital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	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	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	colon	colon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	06:05	06:05	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	parataxis	_	_
20	past	past	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
24	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nummod
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **show** | present | a digital clock |  |  |  | hour |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 06:05 | five |  |  |  | past six | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | present | the 0 in front | the space |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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 ×3, 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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