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title: "Two secs" and "Irish time" are not real times at all. — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: "Two secs" and "Irish time" are not real times at all. Who acts: Two secs. A sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 13

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"Two secs" and "Irish time" are not real times at all.

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**Who acts:** Two secs · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** real times

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» 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 (Two secs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:13
# text = "Two secs" and "Irish time" are not real times at all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 106-late-and-early-being-on-time.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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	secs	sec	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Two secs and Irish time | real times |  |  |  |  | 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:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:13`.

**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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