Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 2
Quarter past eight is 8:15; quarter to seven is 6:45, fifteen minutes before seven, not after it.
Who acts: Quarter · What happens: be · To what, where: 8:15, 6:45
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), 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 | Quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 8:15 | nsubj |
| 2 | past | past | ADP | _ | 3 eight | case |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Quarter | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 8:15 | cop |
| 5 | 8:15 | 8:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 8:15 | punct |
| 7 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 8:15 | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 seven | case |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 quarter | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 6:45 | cop |
| 11 | 6:45 | 6:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 8:15 | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seven | punct |
| 13 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 minutes | nummod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seven | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 seven | case |
| 16 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 seven | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 it | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 it | advmod |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seven | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 8:15 | 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 | is a | present | Quarter past eight | 8:15 and quarter to seven | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Quarter past eight not said here | 6:45 | 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:2.
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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