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title: In France and much of Europe people say the 24-hour time in everyday… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics
description: In France and much of Europe people say the 24-hour time in everyday talk: "dix-neuf heures" is 19:00, which is 7 pm. Who acts: people. 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 ever
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# Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock, sentence 21

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In France and much of Europe people say the 24-hour time in everyday talk: "dix-neuf heures" is 19:00, which is 7 pm.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** France, 19:00, 7 · **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 (people), 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:21
# text = In France and much of Europe people say the 24-hour time in everyday talk: "dix-neuf heures" is 19:00, which is 7 pm.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
19	dix	dix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	neuf	neuf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	heures	heure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	19:00	19:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people |  |  | France | time |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in france=Manner |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | 19:00 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 7 |  |  |  | pm *nmod:unmarked* | 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:21`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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