Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 1
"Past" means after the hour and "to" means before the next one.
Who acts: Past · What happens: mean
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 (Past), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Past | punct |
| 2 | Past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Past | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 means | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 means | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Past | hour | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | before the next one | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:1.
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): R8-pos-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.
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