Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 10

A stopwatch is a clock you start and stop to measure how long something takes, often to a tenth or hundredth of a second.

Who acts: stopwatch, you, something · What happens: be, start, stop, measure, take · To what, where: clock

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, you, something), 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	5 clock	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clock	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 clock	det
5	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 start	nsubj
7	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clock	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stop	cc
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 start	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 measure	mark
11	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stop	xcomp
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 takes	advmod
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 takes	nsubj
15	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 measure	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tenth	punct
17	often	often	ADV	_	20 tenth	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 tenth	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tenth	det
20	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 takes	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 hundredth	cc
22	hundredth	hundredth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tenth	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 second	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 second	det
25	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tenth	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clock	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a stopwatch	a clock		tree rules
2	start	present	you	a clock not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Eventuality
3	stop	present	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	measure	to-infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
5	take	present	something		to a tenth of a second or hundredth result; long property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tenth=Result

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: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): R5-strong ×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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