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title: Small lateness adds up: 10 minutes late every school day for about 1… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: Small lateness adds up: 10 minutes late every school day for about 190 days is 1,900 minutes, more than 31 hours of school missed. Who acts: Small lateness, school day. 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
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 14

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Small lateness adds up: 10 minutes late every school day for about 190 days is 1,900 minutes, more than 31 hours of school missed.

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**Who acts:** Small lateness, school day · **What happens:** add up, be, miss · **To what, where:** 1,900 minutes, school

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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 (Small lateness, school day), 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:14
# text = Small lateness adds up: 10 minutes late every school day for about 190 days is 1,900 minutes, more than 31 hours of school missed.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lateness	lateness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	190	190	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	1,900	1,900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	appos	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Small lateness |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | every school day for 190 days | 1,900 minutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **miss** | participle |  | school *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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: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): R7-rel-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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