Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 12

The 100-metre world record, 9.58 seconds, was set by Usain Bolt in 2009; a fast 9-year-old might take about 16 to 18 seconds.

Who acts: Usain, fast year old · What happens: set, take · To what, where: metre world record, 2009

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 (Usain, fast year old), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 record	det
2	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 metre	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 100	punct
4	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 record	compound
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 record	compound
6	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seconds	punct
8	9.58	9.58	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 seconds	nummod
9	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 record	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 record	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 set	aux:pass
12	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 Usain	case
14	Usain	Usain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
15	Bolt	Bolt	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Usain	flat
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 2009	case
17	2009	2009	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 set	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 old	det
20	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 old	amod
21	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 year	nummod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 9	punct
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 old	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 year	punct
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 take	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 set	parataxis
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 16	advmod
29	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 seconds	nummod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 18	case
31	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 16	nmod
32	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 take	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · passive	Usain	the metre world record		2009			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 2009=Destination
2	take	might	a fast year old				second		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:12.

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 ×5, 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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