Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 18
To turn "twenty to ten" into digital, take 20 from 60 to get 40 and use the hour before: 9:40.
Who acts: you · What happens: turn, take, get, use · To what, where: twenty, digital, 20, 60, 40
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 (you), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 turn | mark |
| 2 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | advcl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 twenty | punct |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 turn | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ten | case |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 twenty | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 twenty | punct |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 digital | case |
| 9 | digital | digital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 turn | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 digital | punct |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 60 | case |
| 14 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 20 | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | advcl |
| 17 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 use | cc |
| 19 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hour | det |
| 21 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 use | obj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 9:40 | case |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 before | punct |
| 24 | 9:40 | 9:40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 use | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | to-infinitive | you not said here | twenty | digital | to ten | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent twenty=Theme into digital=Source to ten=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | 20 | 60 | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent 20=Theme from 60=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | 40 | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 40=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | use | infinitive | you not said here | before 9:40; hour | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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