--- title: An hour is like a pizza cut into 4 equal slices: each slice is a qua… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: An hour is like a pizza cut into 4 equal slices: each slice is a quarter of an hour, 15 minutes, because 60 ÷ 4 = 15. Who acts: slice. A sentence of the lesson «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/0/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/) / 0 # Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 0 An hour is like a pizza cut into 4 equal slices: each slice is a quarter of an hour, 15 minutes, because 60 ÷ 4 = 15. **Who acts:** slice · **What happens:** be, cut · **To what, where:** pizza, quarter This is a sentence of the lesson «Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time» of the world 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 (slice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time.lesson:0 # text = An hour is like a pizza cut into 4 equal slices: each slice is a quarter of an hour, 15 minutes, because 60 ÷ 4 = 15. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time.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 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pizza pizza NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 slices slice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 slice slice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 ÷ ÷ SYM SYM Number=Sing 2 advcl _ _ 28 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 flat _ _ 29 = = SYM SYM _ 27 flat _ _ 30 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | like a pizza | tree rules | | 2 | **cut** | participle | | a pizza *not said here* | | | | into 4 equal slices | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into slice=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | each slice | a quarter and 15 minutes | | | hour | | tree rules | 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. **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:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Reading the clock: hours, minutes and…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/101-reading-the-clock-hours-minutes-hands/20/) - next →: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/)