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title: Many clocks also have a thin, fast second hand that goes round once… — Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many clocks also have a thin, fast second hand that goes round once a minute, and old or fancy clocks may write their numbers as Roman numerals, where I is 1, V is 5 and X is 10. Who acts: Many clocks, thin fast second hand, old clocks, I. A sentence of the lesson «Reading the clock: hours, minutes 
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# Reading the clock: hours, minutes and the two hands, sentence 7

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Many clocks also have a thin, fast second hand that goes round once a minute, and old or fancy clocks may write their numbers as Roman numerals, where I is 1, V is 5 and X is 10.

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**Who acts:** Many clocks, thin fast second hand, old clocks, I, V, X · **What happens:** have, go round, write, be · **To what, where:** thin fast second hand, numbers, 1, 5, 10

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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 (Many clocks, thin fast second hand, old clocks, I), 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:7
# text = Many clocks also have a thin, fast second hand that goes round once a minute, and old or fancy clocks may write their numbers as Roman numerals, where I is 1, V is 5 and X is 10.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:ccomp
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	numerals	numeral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	advcl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=34:punct
36	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | Many clocks | a thin fast second hand |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **go round** | present | a thin fast second hand |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **write** | may | old clocks | hands's numbers |  |  |  | as Roman numerals | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent number=Result as numeral=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | 1 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | V | 5 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | X | 10 |  |  |  |  | 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:7`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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