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title: To choose an alarm time, add up how long each morning job takes and… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics
description: To choose an alarm time, add up how long each morning job takes and count on from the alarm. Who acts: you, morning job. 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 19

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To choose an alarm time, add up how long each morning job takes and count on from the alarm.

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**Who acts:** you, morning job · **What happens:** choose, add up, take, count on · **To what, where:** alarm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, morning job), 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:19
# text = To choose an alarm time, add up how long each morning job takes and count on from the alarm.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **choose** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | present | each morning job |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the alarm |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:19`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-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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