Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 15

Half a minute is 30 seconds, so 35 seconds is just over half a minute and 25 seconds short of a whole minute.

What happens: be · To what, where: 30 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: 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	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 minute	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 minute	det
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seconds	cop
5	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 seconds	nummod
6	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 minute	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seconds	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 35	advmod
9	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 seconds	nummod
10	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seconds	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 over	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 over	advmod
13	over	over	ADV	_	16 minute	advmod
14	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	13 over	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 minute	det
16	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 minute	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seconds	cc
18	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 seconds	nummod
19	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 short	obl
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 minute	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 minute	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 minute	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 minute	amod
24	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 short	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 minute	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	is a	present		30 seconds and 35 seconds					tree rules
2	is	present						half obl; over property	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:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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