--- title: In parts of the USA "quarter of five" or "quarter till five" means 4… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: In parts of the USA "quarter of five" or "quarter till five" means 4:45 and "ten after five" means 5:10. Who acts: ten five. 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 pragmatic --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 5 In parts of the USA "quarter of five" or "quarter till five" means 4:45 and "ten after five" means 5:10. **Who acts:** ten five · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** 4:45, 5:10 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 (ten five), 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:5 # text = In parts of the USA "quarter of five" or "quarter till five" means 4:45 and "ten after five" means 5:10. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 14 till till ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 4:45 4:45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 compound _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 5:10 5:10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 17 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 | | 4:45 | | | | in parts the USA of quarter of five or quarter till five | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot 4:45=Theme in part=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | ten five | 5:10 | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5:10=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:5`. **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. 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