Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 1

Galileo noticed in a cathedral that a swinging lamp took the same time for each swing, big or small, timing it with his pulse.

Who acts: Galileo, swinging lamp · What happens: notice, swing, take, time, pulse · To what, where: cathedral, lamp · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Galileo, swinging lamp), 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	Galileo	galileo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cathedral	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cathedral	det
5	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noticed	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 took	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lamp	det
8	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 lamp	amod
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 swing	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 swing	det
16	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 time	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 big	punct
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 swing	amod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 small	cc
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 big	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 timing	punct
22	timing	time	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 took	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 timing	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 pulse	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 pulse	nmod:poss
26	pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 timing	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none, act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	Galileo		a cathedral			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	swing	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	take	past	a swinging lamp			time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	time	gerund	a swinging lamp not said here	lamp			with Galileo's pulse	vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	pulse		Galileo					nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=agent

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:1.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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