Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 4

On a microwave or a phone timer, two numbers with a colon usually mean minutes and seconds, not hours and minutes: 1:30 is one and a half minutes, 90 seconds.

Who acts: two numbers · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: microwave, 1:30 one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» 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 (two numbers), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 microwave	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 microwave	det
3	microwave	microwave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mean	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 timer	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 timer	det
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 timer	compound
7	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 microwave	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 microwave	punct
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 numbers	nummod
10	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mean	nsubj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 colon	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 colon	det
13	colon	colon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 numbers	nmod
14	usually	usually	ADV	_	15 mean	advmod
15	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mean	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seconds	cc
18	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 minutes	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hours	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 hours	advmod
21	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 minutes	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 minutes	cc
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hours	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
25	1:30	1:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 one	compound
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 one	cop
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 mean	ccomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 minutes	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 half	det
30	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 minutes	compound
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seconds	punct
33	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 seconds	nummod
34	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 minutes	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 mean	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	two numbers with a colon			a microwave or a phone timer	minute	usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		1:30 one			minute		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:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:4.

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 ×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.

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