Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 11
Galileo noticed that a pendulum takes the same time to swing whether the swing is big or small.
Who acts: Galileo, pendulum, swing · What happens: notice, take, swing, be · 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, pendulum, swing), 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 Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 takes | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pendulum | det |
| 5 | pendulum | pendulum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 takes | nsubj |
| 6 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 noticed | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 takes | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 swing | mark |
| 11 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 takes | advcl |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 big | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swing | det |
| 14 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 big | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 big | cop |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 swing | advcl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 small | cc |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 big | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Galileo | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | present | a pendulum | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swing | to-infinitive | a pendulum not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the swing | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the swing not said here | 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:11.
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, 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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