Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 13
A pendulum about 1 metre long takes about 1 second to swing one way.
Who acts: pendulum · What happens: take, swing · To what, where: one way
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 (pendulum), 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 | 2 pendulum | det |
| 2 | pendulum | pendulum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 metre | advmod |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 metre | nummod |
| 5 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 long | obl |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pendulum | amod |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 1 | advmod |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 second | nummod |
| 10 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 swing | mark |
| 12 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 takes | advcl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 way | nummod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | 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 | take | present | a pendulum | second | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swing | to-infinitive | a pendulum not said here | one way | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:13.
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 ×3, 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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