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title: The drive is 50 minutes, so they arrive at 10:15, and check-in close… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: The drive is 50 minutes, so they arrive at 10:15, and check-in closes at 10:30: the buffer saved them, with 15 minutes to spare. Who acts: trips, buffer. 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 tre
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 7

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The drive is 50 minutes, so they arrive at 10:15, and check-in closes at 10:30: the buffer saved them, with 15 minutes to spare.

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**Who acts:** trips, buffer · **What happens:** be, arrive, close, save, spare · **To what, where:** 50 minutes, 10:15, 10:30, trips

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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 (trips, buffer), 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:7
# text = The drive is 50 minutes, so they arrive at 10:15, and check-in closes at 10:30: the buffer saved them, with 15 minutes to spare.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drive	drive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	10:15	10:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
16	in	in	ADV	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	10:30	10:30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	buffer	buffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 |  | 50 minutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | present | trips *= trip* |  |  | 10:15 |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **close** | present |  |  |  | 10:30 |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **save** | participle | the buffer | trips *= trip* |  |  | minute |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **spare** | to-infinitive | the buffer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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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