--- title: "Two secs", "one sec" and "in a minute" are not real times; they mea… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics description: "Two secs", "one sec" and "in a minute" are not real times; they mean soon, and soon can be 10 minutes, which is 600 seconds. Who acts: Two secs, secs, 10 minutes. 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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 secs, secs, 10 minutes), 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:23 # text = "Two secs", "one sec" and "in a minute" are not real times; they mean soon, and soon can be 10 minutes, which is 600 seconds. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 secs sec NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 sec sec NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 ccomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 29 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 ccomp _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 36 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Two secs and one sec and a minute | real times | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | secs *= sec* | | | | | soon *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | can | | 10 minutes | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | 10 minutes | 600 seconds | | | | | 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:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:23`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Late and early: being where you need t…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/22/) - next →: [Late and early: being where you need t…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/)