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title: Some sums run backwards from a deadline: to be at the airport 2 hour… — How long until? Counting on across the hour · tree and pragmatics
description: Some sums run backwards from a deadline: to be at the airport 2 hours before a 10:15 flight, be there at 8:15; with a 45-minute drive, leave at 7:30. Who acts: sums. A sentence of the lesson «How long until? Counting on across the hour» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# How long until? Counting on across the hour, sentence 10

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Some sums run backwards from a deadline: to be at the airport 2 hours before a 10:15 flight, be there at 8:15; with a 45-minute drive, leave at 7:30.

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**Who acts:** sums · **What happens:** run, be, leave · **To what, where:** deadline, airport, 8:15, 7:30

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How long until? Counting on across the hour» 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 (sums), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour.lesson:10
# text = Some sums run backwards from a deadline: to be at the airport 2 hours before a 10:15 flight, be there at 8:15; with a 45-minute drive, leave at 7:30.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	backwards	backward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	deadline	deadline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	10:15	10:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	8:15	8:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	drive	drive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	parataxis	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	7:30	7:30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	obl	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **run** | present | some sums |  |  | a deadline |  | backward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from deadline=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the airport | hour |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | 8:15 |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive |  |  |  | 7:30 |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at 7:30=Location |

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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:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour.lesson:10`.

**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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