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title: The thin second hand goes round once every 60 seconds, which is 1 mi… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: The thin second hand goes round once every 60 seconds, which is 1 minute. Who acts: thin second hand, 60 seconds. 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 17

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The thin second hand goes round once every 60 seconds, which is 1 minute.

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**Who acts:** thin second hand, 60 seconds · **What happens:** go round, be · **To what, where:** 1 minute

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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 (thin second hand, 60 seconds), 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:17
# text = The thin second hand goes round once every 60 seconds, which is 1 minute.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
9	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **go round** | present | the thin second hand |  |  |  | second | once, round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | every 60 seconds | 1 minute |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:17`.

**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. **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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