Swings and pendulums, sentence 10

A grandfather clock counts the swings of its pendulum, and clockmakers move a little weight up or down to make it run faster or slower: moving it up makes the pendulum shorter, so the clock runs faster.

Who acts: grandfather clock, clockmakers, swing, moving, clock, pendulum · What happens: count, move, make, run, move up, swing · To what, where: swings, little weight, swing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Swings and pendulums» of the physics 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 (grandfather clock, clockmakers, swing, moving), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 clock	det
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clock	compound
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counts	nsubj
4	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swings	det
6	swings	swing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 counts	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 pendulum	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pendulum	nmod:poss
9	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swings	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 move	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 move	cc
12	clockmakers	clockmaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 move	nsubj
13	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 counts	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 weight	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weight	amod
16	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 move	obj
17	up	up	ADV	_	13 move	advmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 down	cc
19	down	down	ADV	_	17 up	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 move	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	obj
23	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	xcomp
24	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 run	parataxis
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 slower	cc
26	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 faster	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct
28	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 makes	csubj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 moving	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 moving	compound:prt
31	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 counts	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pendulum	det
33	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shorter	nsubj
34	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 makes	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 runs	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	39 runs	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 clock	det
38	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 runs	nsubj
39	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 counts	conj
40	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 runs	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 counts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	count	present	a grandfather clock	the swings of swing's pendulum		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swing=Theme
2	move	present	clockmakers	a little weight		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent weight=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	clockmakers not said here	swing		tree rules
4	run	infinitive	swing not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	move up	gerund		swing		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	make	present	moving		short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	run	present	the clock		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	swing		swing's pendulum			nom swing «state intransitive»: of=agent

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:physics:010-swings-and-pendulums.lesson:10.

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): R7-rel-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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