Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 14

Americans often say "after" where British people say "past": ten after five and ten past five are both 5:10.

Who acts: Americans, British people · What happens: say, be · To what, where: past, ten 5:10 · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Americans, British people), 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	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 after	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	3 say	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 after	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 say	advmod
8	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 after	acl:relcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 past	punct
12	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 past	punct
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 ten	punct
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 say	ccomp
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 five	case
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 ten	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 5:10	cc
19	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 5:10	compound
20	past	past	ADP	_	21 five	case
21	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 ten	nmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 5:10	cop
23	both	both	ADV	_	24 5:10	advmod
24	5:10	5:10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 ten	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Americans		often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent after=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	British people	past		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent past=Topic
3	is a	present	British people not said here	ten 5:10	both property	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:14.

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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