Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 3
A timer counts down and beeps at zero.
Who acts: timer · What happens: count down, beep · To what, where: zero
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 (timer), 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 | 2 timer | det |
| 2 | timer | timer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 counts | nsubj |
| 3 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 counts | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beeps | cc |
| 6 | beeps | beep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 counts | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 zero | case |
| 8 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 beeps | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counts | 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 | count down | present | a timer | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | beep | present | a timer not said here | zero | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at zero=Location |
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:3.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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