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description: To find how long something lasts, take the start time from the end time, or count on from the start to the end. Who acts: you, something. A sentence of the lesson «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day, sentence 10

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To find how long something lasts, take the start time from the end time, or count on from the start to the end.

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**Who acts:** you, something · **What happens:** find, last, take, count on · **To what, where:** start · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» 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 (you, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.lesson:10
# text = To find how long something lasts, take the start time from the end time, or count on from the start to the end.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **last** | present | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the start | to the end |  | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to end=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.lesson:10`.

**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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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