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title: Mixing up the two hands is the most common clock mistake: always fin… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mixing up the two hands is the most common clock mistake: always find the short hand first for the hour. Who acts: Mixing. 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 
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# Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 20

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Mixing up the two hands is the most common clock mistake: always find the short hand first for the hour.

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**Who acts:** Mixing · **What happens:** mix up, be, find · **To what, where:** two hands, common clock mistake, short hand

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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 (Mixing), 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:20
# text = Mixing up the two hands is the most common clock mistake: always find the short hand first for the hour.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mixing	mix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:acl
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **mix up** | gerund |  | the two hands |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Mixing | the common clock mistake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive |  | the short hand |  |  | hour | always, first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:20`.

**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): 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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