--- title: In Scotland "the back of nine" means a little after nine, around 9:0… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: In Scotland "the back of nine" means a little after nine, around 9:05 or 9:10, never nearly ten. Who acts: back. 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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 (back), 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:20 # text = In Scotland "the back of nine" means a little after nine, around 9:05 or 9:10, never nearly ten. # 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 _ 2 case _ _ 2 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 9:05 9:05 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 9:10 9:10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 appos _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | the back of nine | | | | after nine around 9:05 | in Scotland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scotland=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:20`. **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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/19/) - next →: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/)