Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 9

Counting "one Mississippi, two Mississippi" or "one elephant, two elephant" slows you down to about one second for each number.

What happens: count, slow down · To what, where: one Mississippi, you

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	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Mississippi	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Mississippi	nummod
4	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Counting	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Mississippi	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Mississippi	nummod
7	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mississippi	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Mississippi	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 slows	cc
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 elephant	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 elephant	nummod
12	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Mississippi	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 elephant	punct
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 elephant	nummod
15	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 elephant	appos
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 elephant	punct
17	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Counting	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 slows	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 slows	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 second	case
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 one	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 second	nummod
23	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slows	obl:unmarked
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 number	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 number	det
26	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 second	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 slows	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	gerund		one Mississippi and two Mississippi and one elephant					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mississippi=Theme
2	slow down	present		you			second		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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:9.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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