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title: "am" means before midday and "pm" means after midday; 7:00 am and 7:… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics
description: "am" means before midday and "pm" means after midday; 7:00 am and 7:00 pm are 12 hours apart. Who acts: am, pm, 7:00 am. 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 clause.
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# Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock, sentence 11

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"am" means before midday and "pm" means after midday; 7:00 am and 7:00 pm are 12 hours apart.

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**Who acts:** am, pm, 7:00 am · **What happens:** mean, be

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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 (am, pm, 7:00 am), 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:11
# text = "am" means before midday and "pm" means after midday; 7:00 am and 7:00 pm are 12 hours apart.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
2	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	7:00	7:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	7:00	7:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	4	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | am |  |  |  | before midday |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | pm |  |  |  | after midday |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | 7:00 am and 7:00 pm |  |  |  | hour | apart *property* | 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:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-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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