Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 14
Good clocks before pendulums could be about 15 minutes wrong in a day, and pendulum clocks about 15 seconds: 900 seconds ÷ 15 = 60 times better.
Who acts: pendulums · What happens: be · To what, where: Good clocks
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 (pendulums), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clocks | amod |
| 2 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 wrong | mark |
| 4 | pendulums | pendulum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wrong | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wrong | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wrong | cop |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 15 | advmod |
| 8 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 minutes | nummod |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wrong | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clocks | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrong | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clocks | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clocks | cc |
| 16 | pendulum | pendulum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clocks | compound |
| 17 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clocks | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 15 | advmod |
| 19 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 seconds | nummod |
| 20 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 clocks | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 seconds | punct |
| 22 | 900 | 900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 seconds | nummod |
| 23 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 clocks | conj |
| 24 | ÷ | ÷ | SYM | _ | 25 15 | advmod |
| 25 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 = | nummod |
| 26 | = | = | SYM | _ | 17 clocks | nmod |
| 27 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 times | nummod |
| 28 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 better | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 = | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clocks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | pendulums | Good clocks and pendulum clocks and 15 seconds and 900 seconds not said here | day; minute | wrong property | 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:14.
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): no change. 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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