Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 10
Before that, people set their clocks by shared signals: the red time ball at Greenwich drops at 1 pm every day, the BBC "pips" mark the hour, and in Britain you could dial 123 for the speaking clock.
Who acts: people, red time ball, BBC pips, you · What happens: set, share, drop, mark, dial · To what, where: clocks, that, 1, 123, Britain
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 (people, red time ball, BBC pips, you), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 set | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clocks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 signals | case |
| 9 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 signals | amod |
| 10 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 ball | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ball | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ball | compound |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drops | nsubj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 drops | case |
| 17 | Greenwich | Greenwich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ball | nmod |
| 18 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 1 | case |
| 20 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 drops | obl |
| 21 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 1 | flat |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drops | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 mark | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pips | det |
| 26 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 pips | compound |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 pips | punct |
| 28 | pips | pip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 mark | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 pips | punct |
| 30 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 drops | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hour | det |
| 32 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mark | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dial | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dial | cc |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Britain | case |
| 36 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 dial | obl |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 dial | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 dial | aux |
| 39 | dial | dial | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | parataxis |
| 40 | 123 | 123 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 dial | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 clock | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 clock | det |
| 43 | speaking | speaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 clock | compound |
| 44 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dial | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | people | people's clocks | that | by shared signals | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clock=Theme before that=Destination | ||
| 2 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | drop | present | the red time ball Greenwich | 1 | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at 1=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | mark | present | the BBC pips | hour | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | dial | could | you | 123 | Britain | for the speaking clock | 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:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.lesson:10.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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.
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