Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 12
Quarter to means 15 minutes before the hour, so quarter to seven is 6:45.
Who acts: Quarter · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: 6:45
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 | Quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 1 Quarter | fixed |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 means | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 hour | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hour | det |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 minutes | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quarter | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 6:45 | advmod |
| 11 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 6:45 | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 seven | case |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 quarter | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 6:45 | cop |
| 15 | 6:45 | 6:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 means | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | 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 | mean | infinitive | Quarter | minute | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | quarter to seven | 6:45 | 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:12.
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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