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title: A 3-hour job started at 8 pm ends at 11 pm. — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics
description: A 3-hour job started at 8 pm ends at 11 pm. Who acts: hour job. A sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 20

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A 3-hour job started at 8 pm ends at 11 pm.

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**Who acts:** hour job · **What happens:** start, end · **To what, where:** hour job, 8 pm, 11

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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 (hour job), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:20
# text = A 3-hour job started at 8 pm ends at 11 pm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 129-being-on-time-around-the-world.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **start** | participle |  | a hour job *not said here* |  | 8 pm |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **end** | present | a hour job |  |  | 11  pm |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:20`.

**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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