Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 6
In Britain "half three" means 3:30, but German "halb drei" means half way to three, 2:30.
Who acts: half, German halb drei · What happens: mean · To what, where: 3:30
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 (half, German halb drei), 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 Britain | case |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Britain | punct |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 means | nsubj |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 half | flat |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 three | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 3:30 | 3:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 means | cc |
| 11 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drei | amod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 German | punct |
| 13 | halb | halb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drei | compound |
| 14 | drei | drei | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 drei | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | conj |
| 17 | half | halfway | ADV | _ | 16 means | advmod |
| 18 | way | way | ADV | _ | 17 half | fixed |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 three | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 means | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 three | punct |
| 22 | 2:30 | 2:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 three | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | half | 3:30 | in Britain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot 3:30=Theme in britain=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mean | present | German halb drei | to three; halfway property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to three=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:6.
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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