How long until? Counting on across the hour, sentence 17
To find when to leave, work back from the deadline: a 10:15 flight, 2 hours early at the airport, means 8:15; a 45-minute drive means leaving at 7:30.
Who acts: 10:15 flight, minute drive · What happens: find, leave, work back, mean · To what, where: 8:15, 7:30 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How long until? Counting on across the hour» 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 (10:15 flight, minute drive), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 leave | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 find | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 work | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 deadline | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 deadline | det |
| 11 | deadline | deadline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 back | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 flight | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flight | det |
| 14 | 10:15 | 10:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 flight | nummod |
| 15 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hours | punct |
| 17 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 hours | nummod |
| 18 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flight | nmod |
| 19 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 airport | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 airport | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 airport | det |
| 22 | airport | airport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hours | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | ccomp |
| 25 | 8:15 | 8:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 means | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 means | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 drive | det |
| 28 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 minute | nummod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 45 | punct |
| 30 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drive | compound |
| 31 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 means | nsubj |
| 32 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 means | parataxis |
| 33 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 means | ccomp |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 7:30 | case |
| 35 | 7:30 | 7:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 leaving | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | work back | infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | a 10:15 flight 2 hours at the airport | 8:15 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 8:15=Topic | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | a minute drive | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | 7:30 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at 7:30=Location |
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:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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