Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 19

In parts of northern England and Scotland "dinner" can mean the midday meal and "tea" the evening meal, so "dinner's at half twelve" means 12:30 in the day.

Who acts: dinner, twelve · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: midday meal, parts, twelve, 12:30 · 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 (dinner, twelve), 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	12 mean	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 England	case
4	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 England	amod
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 parts	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Scotland	cc
7	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 England	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dinner	punct
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mean	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dinner	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mean	aux
12	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meal	det
14	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meal	compound
15	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mean	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tea	cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tea	punct
18	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meal	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tea	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 meal	det
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 meal	compound
22	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mean	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 means	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	32 means	advmod
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 dinner	punct
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 twelve	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 twelve	cop
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 twelve	case
29	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 twelve	det:predet
30	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 means	nsubj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 twelve	punct
32	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mean	conj
33	12:30	12:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 means	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 day	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 means	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	mean	can	dinner	the midday meal and tea	parts of northern England and Scotland		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	dinner		half twelve		tree rules
3	mean	present	half twelve	12:30		day	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12:30=Topic

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:19.

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 ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/19/