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title: The 24-hour clock gets rid of am and pm: it counts the hours from 00… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics
description: The 24-hour clock gets rid of am and pm: it counts the hours from 00 at midnight up to 23 late at night. Who acts: hour clock, clock. 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 
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# Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock, sentence 4

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The 24-hour clock gets rid of am and pm: it counts the hours from 00 at midnight up to 23 late at night.

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**Who acts:** hour clock, clock · **What happens:** get, count · **To what, where:** 00

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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 (hour clock, clock), 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:4
# text = The 24-hour clock gets rid of am and pm: it counts the hours from 00 at midnight up to 23 late at night.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	rid	rid	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	00	00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
24	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **get** | present | the hour clock |  |  |  |  | rid am and pm | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **count** | present | clock |  |  | 00 | hour; midnight | up 23; late *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:4`.

**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 ×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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