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title: Half a minute is 30 seconds, so 35 seconds is just over half a minut… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics
description: Half a minute is 30 seconds, so 35 seconds is just over half a minute and 25 seconds short of a whole 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 15

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Half a minute is 30 seconds, so 35 seconds is just over half a minute and 25 seconds short of a whole minute.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 30 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: 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:15
# text = Half a minute is 30 seconds, so 35 seconds is just over half a minute and 25 seconds short of a whole minute.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj
20	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:acl
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | 30 seconds and 35 seconds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | half *obl*; over *property* | 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:15`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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