Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 5
In parts of the USA "quarter of five" or "quarter till five" means 4:45 and "ten after five" means 5:10.
Who acts: ten five · What happens: mean · To what, where: 4:45, 5:10
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 (ten five), 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 | 17 means | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 quarter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 USA | det |
| 5 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 parts | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quarter | punct |
| 7 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 parts | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 five | case |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 quarter | nmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quarter | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 quarter | cc |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 quarter | punct |
| 13 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quarter | conj |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 five | case |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 quarter | nmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 quarter | punct |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | 4:45 | 4:45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 means | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 means | cc |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 five | punct |
| 21 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 five | compound |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 five | case |
| 23 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 means | nsubj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 five | punct |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 means | conj |
| 26 | 5:10 | 5:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 means | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | 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 | mean | present | 4:45 | in parts the USA of quarter of five or quarter till five | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot 4:45=Theme in part=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | ten five | 5:10 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5:10=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:5.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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