Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 13
A countdown timer counts down to zero and then beeps, so you do not have to guess.
Who acts: countdown timer, you · What happens: count down, beep, not have, guess
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 (countdown timer, you), 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 | 3 timer | det |
| 2 | countdown | countdown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 timer | compound |
| 3 | timer | timer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counts | nsubj |
| 4 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 counts | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 zero | case |
| 7 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 counts | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beeps | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 beeps | advmod |
| 10 | beeps | beep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 counts | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 have | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 have | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beeps | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 guess | mark |
| 18 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 counts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count down | present | a countdown timer | to zero; down property | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to zero=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | beep | present | a countdown timer not said here | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not have | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | guess | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:13.
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): no change. 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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