Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 9

When someone uses a time word you don't know, ask for the digital time: being right matters more than sounding clever.

Who acts: someone, you · What happens: use, not know, ask, be, matter, sound · To what, where: time word

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 (someone, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 uses	advmod
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	compound
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 word	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	digital	digital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 matters	punct
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 matters	csubj
20	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	parataxis
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 matters	advmod
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 sounding	mark
23	sounding	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 matters	advcl
24	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sounding	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	someone	a time word			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	not know	present · do-support	you	a time word not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund				right property	tree rules
5	matter	present					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	sound	gerund				clever property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:9.

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): R7-rel-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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