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title: Count back from the start: 8:45 take away 20 minutes is 8:25, the la… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: Count back from the start: 8:45 take away 20 minutes is 8:25, the latest he can leave. Who acts: you, walk. 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 2

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Count back from the start: 8:45 take away 20 minutes is 8:25, the latest he can leave.

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**Who acts:** you, walk · **What happens:** count back, take away, be, leave · **To what, where:** start, 8:25

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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 (you, walk), 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:2
# text = Count back from the start: 8:45 take away 20 minutes is 8:25, the latest he can leave.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	8:45	8:45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	8:25	8:25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	latest	late	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	appos	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **count back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the start |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | minute | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 8:25 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | can | walk |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:2`.

**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 ×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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