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title: For the long hand each number is worth 5 minutes, so you count in fi… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the long hand each number is worth 5 minutes, so you count in fives: on 3 it is 15 minutes past, on 6 it is 30, on 8 it is 40, and all the way round is 60. Who acts: number, you, way. A sentence of the lesson «Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands» of the world course of Mova's pri
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# Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 4

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For the long hand each number is worth 5 minutes, so you count in fives: on 3 it is 15 minutes past, on 6 it is 30, on 8 it is 40, and all the way round is 60.

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**Who acts:** number, you, way · **What happens:** be, count · **To what, where:** fives, 3, 30, 40, 60

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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 (number, you, way), 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:4
# text = For the long hand each number is worth 5 minutes, so you count in fives: on 3 it is 15 minutes past, on 6 it is 30, on 8 it is 40, and all the way round is 60.
# 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 ×2
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fives	fives	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	parataxis	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:obl:unmarked
42	round	round	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | each number |  |  |  | minute | for the long hand; worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | present | you |  |  | fives |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | number |  |  | 3 | minute | past *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | number | 30 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | number | 40 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | all way | 60 |  |  |  |  | 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:4`.

**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 ×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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