Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 14
On a microwave or timer, 1:30 means 1 minute 30 seconds, which is 90 seconds.
Who acts: 1:30, 1 minute · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: microwave, 90 seconds
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 (1:30, 1 minute), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 microwave | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 microwave | det |
| 3 | microwave | microwave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 timer | cc |
| 5 | timer | timer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 microwave | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 microwave | punct |
| 7 | 1:30 | 1:30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 minute | nummod |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 11 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 seconds | nummod |
| 12 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 minute | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seconds | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 seconds | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seconds | cop |
| 16 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 seconds | nummod |
| 17 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 minute | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | 1:30 | a microwave or timer | minute | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | present | 1 minute and 30 seconds | 90 seconds | tree rules |
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:14.
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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