Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 6
To compare runners who ran different distances, work out the time each would take for the same distance: 200 metres in 32 seconds is 100 metres in 16 seconds.
Who acts: runners, each, 200 metres · What happens: compare, run, work out, take, be · To what, where: runners, different distances, time, 100 metres
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» 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 (runners, each, 200 metres), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 compare | mark |
| 2 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 compare | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 runners | acl:relcl |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distances | amod |
| 7 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 work | punct |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 compare | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 work | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | obj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 time | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 distance | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 distance | amod |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 metres | punct |
| 21 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 metres | nummod |
| 22 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 metres | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 seconds | case |
| 24 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 seconds | nummod |
| 25 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 metres | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 metres | cop |
| 27 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 metres | nummod |
| 28 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 distance | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 seconds | case |
| 30 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 seconds | nummod |
| 31 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 metres | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | to-infinitive | runners | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Patient | |||||
| 2 | run | past | runners | different distances | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | work out | infinitive | time | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | would | each | the time not said here | for the same distance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent time=Theme for distance=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | is a | present | 200 metres in 32 seconds | 100 metres | second | tree rules |
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:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:6.
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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