Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 16
In Australia "arvo" means afternoon, so "half three this arvo" is 3:30 in the afternoon.
Who acts: arvo, three · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: 3:30
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 (arvo, three), 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 Australia | case |
| 2 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 arvo | punct |
| 4 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 arvo | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 3:30 | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 3:30 | advmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 3:30 | punct |
| 11 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 three | det:predet |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 3:30 | nsubj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 arvo | det |
| 14 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 three | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 arvo | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 3:30 | cop |
| 17 | 3:30 | 3:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 means | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 afternoon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 afternoon | det |
| 20 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 3:30 | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | arvo | afternoon | in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in australia=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | present | half three this arvo | 3:30 | afternoon | 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:16.
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, 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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