Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 21

Each town once set its clocks by the Sun; railways made Britain use one time in the 1840s, and the world agreed time zones from the 1880s.

Who acts: town, railways, Britain, world · What happens: set, make, use, agree · To what, where: clocks, Britain, time zones, 1880s

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» of the history 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 (town, railways, Britain, world), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 set	advmod
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	conj
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 clocks	nmod:poss
6	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 railways	punct
11	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
14	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	xcomp
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 time	nummod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 use	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 1840s	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 1840s	det
19	1840s	1840	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	16 time	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 agreed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 agreed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 agreed	nsubj
24	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	conj
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 zones	compound
26	zones	zone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 agreed	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 1880s	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 1880s	det
29	1880s	1880	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	26 zones	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	each town	town's clocks			by the Sun; once property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clock=Theme by sun=Destination
2	make	past	railways	Britain				tree rules
3	use	infinitive	Britain not said here			time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	agree speech: agree	past	the world	time zones	the 1880s			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent zone=Topic

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:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:21.

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 ×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.

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