Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 13
In parts of the USA "quarter of" or "quarter till" means quarter to, so "quarter of five" is 4:45.
Who acts: quarter till, quarter · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: quarter, 4:45
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 till, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 parts | case |
| 2 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 means | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 quarter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 quarter | det |
| 5 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quarter | compound |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quarter | punct |
| 7 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 parts | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 means | mark |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 means | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 till | punct |
| 12 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 till | compound |
| 13 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 till | punct |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 quarter | fixed |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 4:45 | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 4:45 | advmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 quarter | punct |
| 21 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 4:45 | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 five | case |
| 23 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 quarter | nmod |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 quarter | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 4:45 | cop |
| 26 | 4:45 | 4:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 means | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 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 | present | quarter till | quarter | in parts of the USA quarter | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot quarter=Theme in part=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | present | quarter of five | 4:45 | 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:13.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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