Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 20
In Scotland "the back of nine" means a little after nine, around 9:05 or 9:10, never nearly ten.
Who acts: back · What happens: mean
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 (back), 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 Scotland | case |
| 2 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Scotland | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 back | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nine | case |
| 7 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 back | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 back | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 after | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 nine | case |
| 13 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 means | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nine | punct |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 9:05 | case |
| 16 | 9:05 | 9:05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 nine | nmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 9:10 | cc |
| 18 | 9:10 | 9:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 9:05 | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ten | punct |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 ten | advmod |
| 21 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 22 ten | advmod |
| 22 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 nine | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the back of nine | after nine around 9:05 | in Scotland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scotland=Attribute |
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:20.
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, 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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