--- title: When someone uses a time word you don't know, ask for the digital ti… — Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really… · tree and pragmatics description: When someone uses a time word you don't know, ask for the digital time: being right matters more than sounding clever. Who acts: someone, 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 --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Quarter past, quarter to, and how people really say the time, sentence 9 When someone uses a time word you don't know, ask for the digital time: being right matters more than sounding clever. **Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** use, not know, ask, be, matter, sound · **To what, where:** time word 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 (someone, 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:9 # text = When someone uses a time word you don't know, ask for the digital time: being right matters more than sounding clever. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 digital digital ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 cop _ _ 19 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 20 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 sounding sound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 advcl _ _ 24 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 . . 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 | **use** | present | someone | a time word | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you | a time word *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **matter** | present | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **sound** | gerund | | | | | | clever *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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): R7-rel-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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/8/) - next →: [Quarter past, quarter to, and how peop…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/102-quarter-past-quarter-to-saying-the-time/)