Directions, latitude and longitude, sentence 3
Longitude was so hard that ships were wrecked for centuries, until John Harrison's sea clock let a captain compare London time with local noon.
Who acts: Longitude, sea clock, captain · What happens: be, wreck, let, compare · To what, where: ships
This is a sentence of the lesson «Directions, latitude and longitude» of the geography 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 (Longitude, sea clock, captain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 wrecked | mark |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wrecked | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 8 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hard | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 centuries | case |
| 10 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wrecked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 let | mark |
| 13 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 clock | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Harrison | Harrison | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 John | flat |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 John | case |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clock | compound |
| 17 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | nsubj |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wrecked | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 captain | det |
| 20 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 compare | nsubj |
| 21 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 22 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 time | compound |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 compare | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 noon | case |
| 25 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 noon | amod |
| 26 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 compare | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
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 | past | Longitude | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wreck | past · passive | ships | century | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | past | John's sea clock | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | compare | infinitive | a captain | noon; time | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «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, 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:geography:002-directions-latitude-and-longitude.lesson:3.
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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