--- title: In Australia "arvo" means afternoon, so "half three this arvo" is 3:… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: In Australia "arvo" means afternoon, so "half three this arvo" is 3:30 in the afternoon. Who acts: arvo, three. 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 cl --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 16 In Australia "arvo" means afternoon, so "half three this arvo" is 3:30 in the afternoon. **Who acts:** arvo, three · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** 3:30 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 (arvo, three), 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:16 # text = In Australia "arvo" means afternoon, so "half three this arvo" is 3:30 in the afternoon. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 arvo arvo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 9 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 12 det:predet _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nsubj _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 arvo arvo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 3:30 3:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 parataxis _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **mean** | present | arvo | | | | afternoon | in Australia | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in australia=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | half three this arvo | 3:30 | | | afternoon | | 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:16`. **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 ×2, 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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/15/) - next →: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/)