--- title: At half past four it sits halfway between 4 and 5, and at 9:50 it is… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics description: At half past four it sits halfway between 4 and 5, and at 9:50 it is almost on the 10, but the hour is still 9 until the long hand reaches 12. Who acts: number, hour, long hand. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, hour, long hand), 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:6 # text = At half past four it sits halfway between 4 and 5, and at 9:50 it is almost on the 10, but the hour is still 9 until the long hand reaches 12. # 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 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 4 det:predet _ _ 3 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 halfway halfway ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 9:50 9:50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 almost almost ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 34 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | number | | | half past four | | between 4; at 9:50 | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at four=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | number | | | the 10 | | almost *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the hour | 9 | | | still | | tree rules | | 4 | **reach** | present | the long hand | 12 | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 12=Theme | 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. **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:6`. **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/). - ← previous: [Reading the clock: hours, minutes and…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/5/) - next →: [Reading the clock: hours, minutes and…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/)