--- title: Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour, so quarter past eight… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour, so quarter past eight is 8:15. Who acts: Quarter past, quarter. 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 pragmatics of every clau --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 11 Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour, so quarter past eight is 8:15. **Who acts:** Quarter past, quarter · **What happens:** means, be · **To what, where:** 8:15 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 (Quarter past, quarter), 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:11 # text = Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour, so quarter past eight is 8:15. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nsubj 2 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 11 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 past past ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 8:15 8:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **means** | present | Quarter past | | | | minute | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | quarter past eight | 8:15 | | | | | 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:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/10/) - next →: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/)