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title: To find how long something lasts on the same day, count the hours fr… — How many hours have passed · tree and pragmatics
description: To find how long something lasts on the same day, count the hours from the start to the end: end minus start. Who acts: you, something. A sentence of the lesson «How many hours have passed» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How many hours have passed, sentence 0

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To find how long something lasts on the same day, count the hours from the start to the end: end minus start.

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**Who acts:** you, something · **What happens:** find, last, count · **To what, where:** start

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How many hours have passed» 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 (you, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:095-elapsed-hours.lesson:0
# text = To find how long something lasts on the same day, count the hours from the start to the end: end minus start.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 095-elapsed-hours.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound
6	lasts	last	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	minus	minus	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
24	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **last** |  | something |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the start | to the end; hour |  | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to end=Experiencer |

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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:095-elapsed-hours.lesson:0`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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