How long since? Counting back, sentence 4
Across midday, count whole hours or switch to the 24-hour clock: the dog was fed at 7:30 am and it is 1:30 pm, which is 13:30, and 13:30 − 7:30 = 6 hours.
Who acts: you, dog · What happens: count, switch, feed, be · To what, where: midday, dog, 7:30, 1:30, 13:30
This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» 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 (you, dog), 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 | Across | across | ADP | _ | 2 midday | case |
| 2 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 count | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hours | punct |
| 4 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hours | amod |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 count | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 switch | cc |
| 8 | switch | switch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 count | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 clock | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clock | det |
| 11 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 hour | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 24 | punct |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clock | compound |
| 14 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 switch | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 fed | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fed | aux:pass |
| 19 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 count | parataxis |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 7:30 | case |
| 21 | 7:30 | 7:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 fed | obl |
| 22 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 7:30 | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 1:30 | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 1:30 | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 1:30 | cop |
| 26 | 1:30 | 1:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 fed | conj |
| 27 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 1:30 | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 13:30 | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 13:30 | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 13:30 | cop |
| 31 | 13:30 | 13:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 1:30 | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 13:30 | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 13:30 | cc |
| 34 | 13:30 | 13:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 fed | conj |
| 35 | − | − | SYM | _ | 36 7:30 | case |
| 36 | 7:30 | 7:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 13:30 | nmod |
| 37 | = | = | SYM | _ | 39 hours | cc |
| 38 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 hours | nummod |
| 39 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 13:30 | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 count | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | midday | hour | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | switch | infinitive | you not said here | to the hour clock result | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to clock=Result | ||||
| 3 | feed | past · passive | the dog | 7:30 am | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | dog | 1:30 | pm nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | present | 13:30 | 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:108-how-long-since-counting-back.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): 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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