--- title: Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A timetable is a promise written as a list of times: when the bus comes, when the train leaves and arrives, when the cartoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/) [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/) / Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the… # Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day Lesson 104 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/0/) — A timetable is a promise written as a list of times: when the bus comes, when the train leaves and arrives, when the cartoon starts, when lunch ends. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/1/) — It lets thousands of people meet the same bus without phoning each other. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/2/) — Callum's bus comes at 8:10, 8:25 and 8:40. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/3/) — He reaches the stop at 8:12: "Missed it by two flippin' minutes!" Now he waits for the 8:25, which is 13 more minutes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/4/) — Always know the next time too, not just the one you want. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/5/) — To find how long something lasts, count from the start time to the end time. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/6/) — If you cross an o'clock, hop to the o'clock first, then add the rest: from 16:50 to 17:30 is 10 minutes to 17:00 plus 30 more, 40 minutes. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/7/) — Read the small print. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/8/) — "Mon–Fri" means Monday to Friday only; "last entry 5:15" is earlier than closing time; "+1" means the train arrives the next day; and the paper timetable is only the plan, while a live app shows where the bus really is. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/9/) — A timetable is a list of times when things such as buses, trains, lessons or TV programmes happen. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/10/) — To find how long something lasts, take the start time from the end time, or count on from the start to the end. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/11/) — When counting across an o'clock, go up to the o'clock first and then add the rest of the minutes. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/12/) — If you miss a bus, you wait for the next one, so it helps to know the time after it too. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/13/) — "Buses every 12 minutes" from 7:00 means 7:12, 7:24, 7:36 and so on; not every round time like 7:30 is on the list. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/14/) — "Mon–Fri" means Monday to Friday, the 5 weekdays; Saturday and Sunday are not included. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/15/) — Many places have a "last entry" time before closing time, and after last entry you cannot go in even though they are still open. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/16/) — On long-distance timetables "+1" after a time means the arrival is on the next day. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/18/) — Traffic, weather and roadworks make buses late, so a live app saying "Due 3:47" for a 3:40 bus means it is about 7 minutes late. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/19/) — TV guides and train timetables often use the 24-hour clock, where 17:30 is 5:30 pm. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day/21/) — Words people use: "flippin'" is a mild swear word (UK), "proper" means very (UK), "bruv" means brother or mate (London), "fixin' to" means about to (southern USA) and "can or not?" means "is it possible?" (Singapore). - ← previous: [Morning, afternoon and the 24-hour clock](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/103-morning-afternoon-24-hour-clock/) - next →: [Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)