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title: Picture your mate from Leeds moaning "Tokyo's like a million hours a… — Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture your mate from Leeds moaning "Tokyo's like a million hours ahead, innit": the million is just a way of saying "a lot", and in winter the real gap is 9 hours, which you can work out without panic. Who acts: you, innit million, way, real gap. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, direction
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# Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★, sentence 4

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Picture your mate from Leeds moaning "Tokyo's like a million hours ahead, innit": the million is just a way of saying "a lot", and in winter the real gap is 9 hours, which you can work out without panic.

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**Who acts:** you, innit million, way, real gap · **What happens:** picture, moan, be, say, work out · **To what, where:** mate, Leeds, Tokyo, way, lot, 9 hours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» of the geography 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, innit million, way, real gap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:4
# text = Picture your mate from Leeds moaning "Tokyo's like a million hours ahead, innit": the million is just a way of saying "a lot", and in winter the real gap is 9 hours, which you can work out without panic.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
14	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:ccomp
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	parataxis	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obj	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl:relcl
46	out	out	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	without	without	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | your mate |  | Leeds |  | ahead *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mate=Theme |
| 2 | **moan** | gerund | you *not said here* | Tokyo |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tokyo=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the innit million | a way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a way *not said here* | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the real gap | 9 hours |  |  | winter |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **work out** | can | you | 9 hours |  |  |  | without panic | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |

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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.

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**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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