Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 10
A quarter of an hour is 15 minutes, because 60 ÷ 4 = 15.
Who acts: quarter · What happens: be · To what, where: 15 minutes
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 (quarter), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 quarter | det |
| 2 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 minutes | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hour | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quarter | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 minutes | cop |
| 7 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ÷ | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 ÷ | mark |
| 11 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 ÷ | nummod |
| 12 | ÷ | ÷ | SYM | Number=Sing | 8 minutes | advcl |
| 13 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 ÷ | flat |
| 14 | = | = | SYM | _ | 15 15 | case |
| 15 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 4 | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 minutes | 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 a | present | a quarter of a hour | 15 minutes | 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:10.
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.
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