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title: To turn "twenty to ten" into digital, take 20 from 60 to get 40 and… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics
description: To turn "twenty to ten" into digital, take 20 from 60 to get 40 and use the hour before: 9:40. Who acts: you. 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
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# Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 18

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To turn "twenty to ten" into digital, take 20 from 60 to get 40 and use the hour before: 9:40.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** turn, take, get, use · **To what, where:** twenty, digital, 20, 60, 40

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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 (you), 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:18
# text = To turn "twenty to ten" into digital, take 20 from 60 to get 40 and use the hour before: 9:40.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	digital	digital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
24	9:40	9:40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | twenty |  | digital |  | to ten | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent twenty=Theme into digital=Source to ten=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | 20 |  | 60 |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent 20=Theme from 60=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | 40 |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 40=Stimulus |
| 4 | **use** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | before 9:40; hour |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:18`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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