Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 2

In a race, half a second is a big gap: if Lola runs 60 metres in 12.4 seconds and her friend in 11.9, the friend is 0.5 seconds faster.

Who acts: second, Lola, friend · What happens: be, run · To what, where: big gap, race, 60 metres

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 (second, Lola, friend), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 race	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 race	det
3	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gap	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 race	punct
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 second	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 second	det
7	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gap	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gap	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gap	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gap	amod
11	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 runs	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 runs	mark
14	Lola	Lola	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 runs	nsubj
15	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gap	advcl
16	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 metres	nummod
17	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 runs	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 seconds	case
19	12.4	12.4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 seconds	nummod
20	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 runs	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 friend	cc
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 friend	nmod:poss
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seconds	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 11.9	case
25	11.9	11.9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 friend	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gap	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 friend	det
28	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 faster	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 faster	cop
30	0.5	0.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 seconds	nummod
31	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 faster	obl:unmarked
32	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 gap	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gap	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	half second	a big gap	a race			tree rules
2	run a condition, not said to happen	present	Lola	60 metres		second		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory
3	is	present	the friend			second	fast 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:2.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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