Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 1
A stopwatch measures short times very exactly, even tenths and hundredths of a second.
Who acts: stopwatch · What happens: measure
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» 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 (stopwatch), 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 | 2 stopwatch | det |
| 2 | stopwatch | stopwatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | nsubj |
| 3 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 measures | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 exactly | advmod |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 measures | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tenths | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 tenths | advmod |
| 10 | tenths | tenth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 measures | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hundredths | cc |
| 12 | hundredths | hundredth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tenths | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 second | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 second | det |
| 15 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hundredths | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 measures | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | a stopwatch | time | exactly property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:1.
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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