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title: To add hours and minutes, add the hours first: 5:50 + 1 hour 20 minu… — How long until? Counting on across the hour · tree and pragmatics
description: To add hours and minutes, add the hours first: 5:50 + 1 hour 20 minutes is 6:50, then 7:10. 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 16

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To add hours and minutes, add the hours first: 5:50 + 1 hour 20 minutes is 6:50, then 7:10.

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**What happens:** add, be · **To what, where:** 5:50, 6:50

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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: 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:16
# text = To add hours and minutes, add the hours first: 5:50 + 1 hour 20 minutes is 6:50, then 7:10.
# 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): no change
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	5:50	5:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
13	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	6:50	6:50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	7:10	7:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | 5:50 |  |  | hour |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5:50=Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | hour | first *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 6:50 |  |  | minute |  | 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:16`.

**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): no change. **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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