Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 11
In a race the lower time wins: 11.9 seconds beats 12.4 seconds by 0.5 seconds, half a second.
Who acts: lower time, 11.9 seconds · What happens: win, beat · To what, where: race
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 (lower time, 11.9 seconds), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 race | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 race | det |
| 3 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beats | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wins | nsubj |
| 7 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beats | parataxis |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 wins | punct |
| 9 | 11.9 | 11.9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 10 seconds | nummod |
| 10 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beats | nsubj |
| 11 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | 12.4 | 12.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 13 seconds | nummod |
| 13 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beats | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 seconds | case |
| 15 | 0.5 | 0.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 16 seconds | nummod |
| 16 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beats | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 half | punct |
| 18 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 20 second | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 second | det |
| 20 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seconds | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 beats | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | the lower time | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beat | present | 11.9 seconds | a race | second | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Location |
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:11.
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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