Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 3
Once the long hand passes half past, people switch to "to": twenty to ten is 9:40.
Who acts: long hand, people, twenty · What happens: pass, switch, be · To what, where: half, 9:40
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 (long hand, people, twenty), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 passes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passes | nsubj |
| 5 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 switch | advcl |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passes | obj |
| 7 | past | past | ADV | _ | 6 half | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 switch | punct |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 switch | nsubj |
| 10 | switch | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 " | mark |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 " | mark |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 switch | punct |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 switch | punct |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 9:40 | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ten | case |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 twenty | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 9:40 | cop |
| 20 | 9:40 | 9:40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 switch | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 switch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | the long hand | half | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme half=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | switch | present | people | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | twenty to ten | 9:40 | 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:3.
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.
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