--- title: Quarter past eight is 8:15; quarter to seven is 6:45, fifteen minute… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: Quarter past eight is 8:15; quarter to seven is 6:45, fifteen minutes before seven, not after it. Who acts: Quarter. 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 eve --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 2 Quarter past eight is 8:15; quarter to seven is 6:45, fifteen minutes before seven, not after it. **Who acts:** Quarter · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 8:15, 6:45 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 (Quarter), 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:2 # text = Quarter past eight is 8:15; quarter to seven is 6:45, fifteen minutes before seven, not after it. # 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 Quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 past past ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 8:15 8:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 6:45 6:45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 before before ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 appos _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | Quarter past eight | 8:15 and quarter to seven | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Quarter past eight *not said here* | 6:45 | | | | | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/1/) - next →: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/)