Telling the time, sentence 9
moins means minus: cinq heures moins le quart is quarter to five, cinq heures moins dix is ten to five.
Who acts: moins, quart, dix · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: minus, quarter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Telling the time» of the french 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 (moins, quart, dix), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moins | moins | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | minus | minus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 heures | punct |
| 5 | cinq | cinq | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 heures | nummod |
| 6 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 minus | conj |
| 7 | moins | moins | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | conj |
| 8 | le | le | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 quart | det |
| 9 | quart | quart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quarter | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 quarter | cop |
| 11 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moins | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 five | case |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 quarter | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 five | punct |
| 15 | cinq | cinq | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 heures | nummod |
| 16 | heures | heure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 quarter | nsubj |
| 17 | moins | moin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heures | conj |
| 18 | dix | dix | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 five | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 five | cop |
| 20 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 five | compound |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 five | case |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 moins | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | moins | minus and cinq heures | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minus=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | le quart | quarter | to five | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | dix | to ten five | tree rules |
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.
Licence: CC 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:french:012-telling-the-time.lesson:9.
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.
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