--- title: From 11:40 am to 3:10 pm is 3 hours 30 minutes: count the whole hour… — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics description: From 11:40 am to 3:10 pm is 3 hours 30 minutes: count the whole hours to 2:40, then add 30 minutes. Who acts: 11:40. A sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [How long since? Counting back](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/) / 17 # How long since? Counting back, sentence 17 From 11:40 am to 3:10 pm is 3 hours 30 minutes: count the whole hours to 2:40, then add 30 minutes. **Who acts:** 11:40 · **What happens:** be, count, add · **To what, where:** 3 hours This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» 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 (11:40), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:17 # text = From 11:40 am to 3:10 pm is 3 hours 30 minutes: count the whole hours to 2:40, then add 30 minutes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 108-how-long-since-counting-back.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): R5-strong ×1 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 11:40 11:40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nsubj _ _ 3 am a.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 3:10 3:10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 6 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 2:40 2:40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 21 add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | 11:40 am to 3:10 pm | 3 hours | | | minute | | tree rules | | 2 | **count** | infinitive | | | | | hour | to 2:40 | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to 2:40=Experiencer | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | then; minute | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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. **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:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:17`. **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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [How long since? Counting back, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/16/) - next →: [How long since? Counting back, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/)