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title: To find when to leave, work back from the deadline: a 10:15 flight,… — How long until? Counting on across the hour · tree and pragmatics
description: To find when to leave, work back from the deadline: a 10:15 flight, 2 hours early at the airport, means 8:15; a 45-minute drive means leaving at 7:30. Who acts: 10:15 flight, minute drive. A sentence of the lesson «How long until? Counting on across the hour» of the world course of Mova's primary sc
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# How long until? Counting on across the hour, sentence 17

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To find when to leave, work back from the deadline: a 10:15 flight, 2 hours early at the airport, means 8:15; a 45-minute drive means leaving at 7:30.

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**Who acts:** 10:15 flight, minute drive · **What happens:** find, leave, work back, mean · **To what, where:** 8:15, 7:30 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (10:15 flight, minute drive), 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:17
# text = To find when to leave, work back from the deadline: a 10:15 flight, 2 hours early at the airport, means 8:15; a 45-minute drive means leaving 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): no change
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	deadline	deadline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	10:15	10:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
25	8:15	8:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
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	32	nsubj	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
33	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	ccomp	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	7:30	7:30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	obl	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **find** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **work back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a 10:15 flight  2 hours at the airport | 8:15 |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 8:15=Topic |
| 5 | **mean** | present | a minute drive |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **leave** | gerund |  |  |  | 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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**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.

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