--- title: On a microwave or a phone timer, two numbers with a colon usually me… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics description: On a microwave or a phone timer, two numbers with a colon usually mean minutes and seconds, not hours and minutes: 1:30 is one and a half minutes, 90 seconds. Who acts: two numbers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two numbers), 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:4 # text = On a microwave or a phone timer, two numbers with a colon usually mean minutes and seconds, not hours and minutes: 1:30 is one and a half minutes, 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): R5-strong ×2 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 15 obl _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 timer timer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 colon colon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 24 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 1:30 1:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 compound _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 ccomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 30 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 31 compound _ _ 31 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | two numbers with a colon | | | a microwave or a phone timer | minute | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | 1:30 one | | | minute | | tree rules | 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. **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:4`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Alarms, stopwatches and how long a sec…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is/3/) - next →: [Alarms, stopwatches and how long a sec…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is/)