--- title: Hours, minutes and seconds — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Hours, minutes and seconds», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: An hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds; a day has 24 hours. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/225-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/) / Hours, minutes and seconds # Hours, minutes and seconds Lesson 225 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/225-hours-and-minutes/0/) — An hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds; a day has 24 hours. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/225-hours-and-minutes/1/) — Half an hour is 30 minutes and a quarter of an hour 15. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/225-hours-and-minutes/2/) — To turn hours and minutes into minutes, take 60 minutes for every hour and add the extra minutes. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/225-hours-and-minutes/3/) — A film of 2 hours and 15 minutes: 2 × 60 = 120, and 120 + 15 = 135 minutes. - ← previous: [Years, decades and seasons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/224-years-and-months/) - next →: [How long it takes on the clock](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/226-how-long-on-the-clock/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)