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title: To add minutes across the hour, split them: 4:40 + 35 minutes is 4:4… — How long until? Counting on across the hour · tree and pragmatics
description: To add minutes across the hour, split them: 4:40 + 35 minutes is 4:40 + 20 = 5:00, then + 15 = 5:15. Who acts: 4:40 minutes. A sentence of the lesson «How long until? Counting on across the hour» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# How long until? Counting on across the hour, sentence 15

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To add minutes across the hour, split them: 4:40 + 35 minutes is 4:40 + 20 = 5:00, then + 15 = 5:15.

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**Who acts:** 4:40 minutes · **What happens:** add, split, be · **To what, where:** 15, extras, 4:40

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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 (4:40 minutes), 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:15
# text = To add minutes across the hour, split them: 4:40 + 35 minutes is 4:40 + 20 = 5:00, then + 15 = 5:15.
# 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	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	split	split	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
11	4:40	4:40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	4:40	4:40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod
18	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	20	case	_	_
20	5:00	5:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
25	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	26	case	_	_
26	5:15	5:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | 15 |  |  | hour; minute | = 5:15 | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 15=Patient |
| 2 | **split** | infinitive |  | extras *= extra* |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | 4:40 minutes *not said here* | 4:40 |  |  |  | 20 = 5:00 *nmod* | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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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