--- title: A day has 24 hours, but an ordinary clock face shows only 12, so its… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics description: A day has 24 hours, but an ordinary clock face shows only 12, so its short hand goes round twice a day: once from midnight to midday, and once from midday to midnight. Who acts: day, ordinary clock face, short 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 (day, ordinary clock face, short hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock.lesson:0 # text = A day has 24 hours, but an ordinary clock face shows only 12, so its short hand goes round twice a day: once from midnight to midday, and once from midday to midnight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 round round ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 20 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 28 advmod _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 35 advmod _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a day | | | | hour | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **show** | present | a ordinary clock face | 12 | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 12=Recipient | | 3 | **go round** | present | face's short hand | | | | midnight | round, twice *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/22/) - next →: [Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock/)