--- title: Adding hours and minutes — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Adding hours and minutes», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Add the hours to the hours and the minutes to the minutes. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/194-adding-hours-and-minutes/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / Adding hours and minutes # Adding hours and minutes Lesson 194 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 4 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/194-adding-hours-and-minutes/0/) — Add the hours to the hours and the minutes to the minutes. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/194-adding-hours-and-minutes/1/) — If the minutes reach 60 or more, 60 of them make one more hour. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/194-adding-hours-and-minutes/2/) — 1 h 45 min + 2 h 30 min = 3 h 75 min = 4 h 15 min, which is 4 × 60 + 15 = 255 minutes. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/194-adding-hours-and-minutes/3/) — A time written only in minutes can be added straight to the other time turned into minutes. - ← previous: [Change after buying several things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/193-change-after-shopping/) - next →: [Metres and centimetres in several steps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/195-metres-and-centimetres/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)