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title: On a clock face the 12 numbers are spread evenly: 12 at the top, 3 o… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: On a clock face the 12 numbers are spread evenly: 12 at the top, 3 on the right, 6 at the bottom and 9 on the left. 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 19

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On a clock face the 12 numbers are spread evenly: 12 at the top, 3 on the right, 6 at the bottom and 9 on the left.

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**What happens:** spread · **To what, where:** 12 numbers, clock face

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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: 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:19
# text = On a clock face the 12 numbers are spread evenly: 12 at the top, 3 on the right, 6 at the bottom and 9 on the left.
# 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 ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl:relcl
10	evenly	evenly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **spread** | present · passive |  | the 12 numbers |  | a clock face |  | evenly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on face=Destination |

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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:19`.

**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 ×2. **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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