--- title: Across midday, count whole hours or switch to the 24-hour clock: the… — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics description: Across midday, count whole hours or switch to the 24-hour clock: the dog was fed at 7:30 am and it is 1:30 pm, which is 13:30, and 13:30 − 7:30 = 6 hours. Who acts: you, dog. A sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # How long since? Counting back, sentence 4 Across midday, count whole hours or switch to the 24-hour clock: the dog was fed at 7:30 am and it is 1:30 pm, which is 13:30, and 13:30 − 7:30 = 6 hours. **Who acts:** you, dog · **What happens:** count, switch, feed, be · **To what, where:** midday, dog, 7:30, 1:30, 13:30 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 (you, dog), 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:4 # text = Across midday, count whole hours or switch to the 24-hour clock: the dog was fed at 7:30 am and it is 1:30 pm, which is 13:30, and 13:30 − 7:30 = 6 hours. # 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): no change 1 Across across ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 switch switch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 7:30 7:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 22 am a.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 1:30 1:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 27 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:unmarked _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 13:30 13:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 acl:relcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 13:30 13:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 35 − − SYM SYM _ 36 case _ _ 36 7:30 7:30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nmod _ _ 37 = = SYM SYM _ 39 cc _ _ 38 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | midday | hour | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **switch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | to the hour clock *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to clock=Result | | 3 | **feed** | past · passive | | the dog | | 7:30 am | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | present | dog | 1:30 | | | | pm *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | | 13:30 | | | | | tree rules | 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:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [How long since? Counting back, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/3/) - next →: [How long since? Counting back, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/)