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description: "Irish time" and "island time" are jokes about being relaxed about lateness at casual events; they do not count for school, flights or work. Who acts: Irish time, events. 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 i
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 22

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"Irish time" and "island time" are jokes about being relaxed about lateness at casual events; they do not count for school, flights or work.

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**Who acts:** Irish time, events · **What happens:** be, not count · **To what, where:** jokes

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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 (Irish time, events), 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:22
# text = "Irish time" and "island time" are jokes about being relaxed about lateness at casual events; they do not count for school, flights or work.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
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	11	cop	_	_
11	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	lateness	lateness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	casual	casual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	flights	flight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** | present | Irish time and island time | jokes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about lateness at casual events; relaxed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | events *= event* |  |  |  |  | for school and flights or work | 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:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:22`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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