--- title: Timetables are exact to the minute: a bus at 07:52 leaves 8 minutes… — Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock · tree and pragmatics description: Timetables are exact to the minute: a bus at 07:52 leaves 8 minutes before 8, so rounding it to "eight-ish" makes you miss it. Who acts: Timetables, bus, rounding, you. 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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 (Timetables, bus, rounding, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock.lesson:20 # text = Timetables are exact to the minute: a bus at 07:52 leaves 8 minutes before 8, so rounding it to "eight-ish" makes you miss it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Timetables timetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 07:52 07:52 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ _ 12 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 before before ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 rounding round VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ish ish NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 miss miss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Timetables | | | | minute | exact *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | present | a bus at 07:52 | | | | minute | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **round** | gerund | | bus | | | | to eight ish *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to ish=Result | | 4 | **make** | present | rounding | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **miss** | infinitive | you *not said here* | bus | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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:103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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