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title: An ordinary clock face shows 12 hours, so the hands go round twice i… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics
description: An ordinary clock face shows 12 hours, so the hands go round twice in one day of 24 hours. Who acts: ordinary clock face, hands. A sentence of the lesson «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock, sentence 10

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An ordinary clock face shows 12 hours, so the hands go round twice in one day of 24 hours.

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**Who acts:** ordinary clock face, hands · **What happens:** show, go round

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» 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 (ordinary clock face, hands), 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:10
# text = An ordinary clock face shows 12 hours, so the hands go round twice in one day of 24 hours.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
14	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **show** | present | a ordinary clock face |  |  |  | hour |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go round** | present | the hands |  |  |  | day | round, twice *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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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