Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 7

The drive is 50 minutes, so they arrive at 10:15, and check-in closes at 10:30: the buffer saved them, with 15 minutes to spare.

Who acts: trips, buffer · What happens: be, arrive, close, save, spare · To what, where: 50 minutes, 10:15, 10:30, trips

This is a sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on 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 (trips, buffer), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drive	det
2	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 minutes	cop
4	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drive	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 arrive	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 arrive	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 arrive	nsubj
9	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drive	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 10:15	case
11	10:15	10:15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 arrive	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 closes	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 closes	cc
14	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 closes	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 in	punct
16	in	in	ADV	_	14 check	compound:prt
17	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drive	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 10:30	case
19	10:30	10:30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 closes	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 saved	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 buffer	det
22	buffer	buffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saved	nsubj
23	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 drive	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saved	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 minutes	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 minutes	case
27	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 minutes	nummod
28	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saved	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 spare	mark
30	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 minutes	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present		50 minutes			tree rules
2	arrive	present	trips = trip		10:15		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	close	present			10:30		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	save	participle	the buffer	trips = trip		minute	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	spare	to-infinitive	the buffer not said here				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent

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:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:7.

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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