--- title: In German "halb drei" means half way to three, 2:30, while in Britis… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: In German "halb drei" means half way to three, 2:30, while in British English "half three" means 3:30. Who acts: halb drei, half. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (halb drei, half), 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:15 # text = In German "halb drei" means half way to three, 2:30, while in British English "half three" means 3:30. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 German German PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 halb halb NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 drei drei NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 half half ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 2:30 2:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 23 nsubj _ _ 21 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 24 3:30 3:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | halb drei | German | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot way=Theme to three=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | half | 3:30 | | | | in British English | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot 3:30=Theme in english=Attribute | 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:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/14/) - next →: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/)