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title: Many people say 12 am for midnight and 12 pm for noon, but these mud… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people say 12 am for midnight and 12 pm for noon, but these muddle even grown-ups, so timetables often just write "noon" and "midnight". Who acts: Many people, these, timetables. A sentence of the lesson «Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock» of the world course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock, sentence 15

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Many people say 12 am for midnight and 12 pm for noon, but these muddle even grown-ups, so timetables often just write "noon" and "midnight".

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**Who acts:** Many people, these, timetables · **What happens:** say, muddle, write · **To what, where:** 12 am, grown ups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many people, these, timetables), 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:15
# text = Many people say 12 am for midnight and 12 pm for noon, but these muddle even grown-ups, so timetables often just write "noon" and "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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
10	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
16	muddle	muddle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	timetables	timetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Many people | 12 am |  |  |  | for midnight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent a.m.=Topic |
| 2 | **muddle** | present | these | grown ups |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Patient |
| 3 | **write** | present | timetables |  |  |  | noon | often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:15`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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