Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 16

Dentists say to brush your teeth for about 2 minutes, which is 120 seconds; 30 seconds is only a quarter of that.

Who acts: Dentists, 2 minutes, 30 seconds · What happens: say, brush, be · To what, where: teeth, 120 seconds, quarter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dentists, 2 minutes, 30 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	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 brush	mark
4	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	xcomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teeth	nmod:poss
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brush	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 2	advmod
9	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brush	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seconds	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seconds	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seconds	cop
14	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 seconds	nummod
15	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 minutes	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 quarter	punct
17	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 seconds	nummod
18	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 quarter	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 quarter	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 quarter	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 quarter	det
22	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 quarter	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dentists				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	brush	to-infinitive	Dentists not said here	your teeth	minute		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
3	is a	present	2 minutes	120 seconds			tree rules
4	is a	present	30 seconds	a quarter		of that	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:16.

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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