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title: An hour has 60 minutes, so from a quarter past to the next o'clock i… — How long it takes on the clock · tree and pragmatics
description: An hour has 60 minutes, so from a quarter past to the next o'clock is 60 − 15 = 45 minutes. Who acts: hour. A sentence of the lesson «How long it takes on the clock» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How long it takes on the clock, sentence 1

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An hour has 60 minutes, so from a quarter past to the next o'clock is 60 − 15 = 45 minutes.

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**Who acts:** hour · **What happens:** have

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How long it takes on the clock» of the lessons 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 (hour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:226-how-long-on-the-clock.lesson:1
# text = An hour has 60 minutes, so from a quarter past to the next o'clock is 60 − 15 = 45 minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 226-how-long-on-the-clock.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): no change
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	−	−	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	18	dep	_	_
21	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a hour |  |  |  | minute |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:lessons:226-how-long-on-the-clock.lesson:1`.

**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.

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

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