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title: Americans often say "after" where British people say "past": ten aft… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics
description: Americans often say "after" where British people say "past": ten after five and ten past five are both 5:10. Who acts: Americans, British people. 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 t
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# Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 14

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Americans often say "after" where British people say "past": ten after five and ten past five are both 5:10.

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**Who acts:** Americans, British people · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** past, ten 5:10 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Americans, British people), 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:14
# text = Americans often say "after" where British people say "past": ten after five and ten past five are both 5:10.
# 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	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	ccomp	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	_
20	past	past	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	both	both	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	5:10	5:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Americans |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent after=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | British people | past |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent past=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | British people *not said here* | ten 5:10 |  |  |  | both *property* | tree rules |

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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:world:102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time.lesson:14`.

**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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