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title: On a microwave or timer, 1:30 means 1 minute 30 seconds, which is 90… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics
description: On a microwave or timer, 1:30 means 1 minute 30 seconds, which is 90 seconds. Who acts: 1:30, 1 minute. A sentence of the lesson «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 14

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On a microwave or timer, 1:30 means 1 minute 30 seconds, which is 90 seconds.

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**Who acts:** 1:30, 1 minute · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** microwave, 90 seconds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» 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 (1:30, 1 minute), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:14
# text = On a microwave or timer, 1:30 means 1 minute 30 seconds, which is 90 seconds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.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): no change
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	microwave	microwave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	timer	timer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	1:30	1:30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | 1:30 |  |  | a microwave or timer | minute |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 1 minute and 30 seconds | 90 seconds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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