Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 0
An hour is like a pizza cut into 4 equal slices: each slice is a quarter of an hour, 15 minutes, because 60 ÷ 4 = 15.
Who acts: slice · What happens: be, cut · To what, where: pizza, quarter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» 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 (slice), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hour | det |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pizza | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 pizza | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pizza | det |
| 6 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hour | conj |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pizza | acl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 slices | case |
| 9 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 slices | nummod |
| 10 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 slices | amod |
| 11 | slices | slice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 quarter | punct |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 slice | det |
| 14 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quarter | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 quarter | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 quarter | det |
| 17 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hour | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hour | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hour | det |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quarter | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 minutes | punct |
| 22 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 minutes | nummod |
| 23 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 quarter | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ÷ | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 ÷ | mark |
| 26 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 ÷ | nummod |
| 27 | ÷ | ÷ | SYM | Number=Sing | 2 hour | advcl |
| 28 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 ÷ | flat |
| 29 | = | = | SYM | _ | 27 ÷ | flat |
| 30 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 ÷ | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hour | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | like a pizza | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cut | participle | a pizza not said here | into 4 equal slices | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into slice=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | each slice | a quarter and 15 minutes | hour | 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:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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.
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