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title: "At 10 sharp" and "on the dot" mean exactly on time; "grand" in Irel… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics
description: "At 10 sharp" and "on the dot" mean exactly on time; "grand" in Ireland means fine. Who acts: 10 sharp, grand. 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 
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# Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 23

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"At 10 sharp" and "on the dot" mean exactly on time; "grand" in Ireland means fine.

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**Who acts:** 10 sharp, grand · **What happens:** mean

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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 (10 sharp, grand), 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:23
# text = "At 10 sharp" and "on the dot" mean exactly on time; "grand" in Ireland means fine.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	sharp	sharp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dot	dot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **mean** | present | 10 sharp and the dot |  |  |  | time |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | grand in Ireland |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:23`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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