Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 0
A good clock needs something that repeats at a steady beat and something that counts the beats.
Who acts: good clock · What happens: need, repeat, count · To what, where: something, steady beat, beats
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» 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 (good clock), 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 | 3 clock | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clock | amod |
| 3 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 needs | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 repeats | nsubj |
| 7 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 something | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 beat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 beat | det |
| 10 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beat | amod |
| 11 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 repeats | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 something | cc |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 beat | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 counts | nsubj |
| 15 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 something | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beats | det |
| 17 | beats | beat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 counts | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | 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 | need | present | a good clock | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | present | a steady beat | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | count | present | the beats | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Theme |
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:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.lesson:0.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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