--- title: In parts of northern England and Scotland "dinner" can mean the midd… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: In parts of northern England and Scotland "dinner" can mean the midday meal and "tea" the evening meal, so "dinner's at half twelve" means 12:30 in the day. Who acts: dinner, twelve. 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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 (dinner, twelve), 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:19 # text = In parts of northern England and Scotland "dinner" can mean the midday meal and "tea" the evening meal, so "dinner's at half twelve" means 12:30 in the day. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 30 det:predet _ _ 30 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nsubj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 33 12:30 12:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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** | can | dinner | the midday meal and tea | | parts of northern England and Scotland | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | dinner | | | half twelve | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | half twelve | 12:30 | | | day | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12:30=Topic | 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:19`. **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. **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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/18/) - next →: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/)