Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 16
The Earth turns 15 degrees an hour, so each hour of difference between home time and local Sun time means 15 degrees east or west.
Who acts: Earth, home time · What happens: turn, mean · To what, where: 15 degrees
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 (Earth, home time), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 degrees | nummod |
| 5 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | obj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hour | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 hour | advmod |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 hour | det |
| 11 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 difference | case |
| 13 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hour | nmod |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | compound |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hour | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 means | cc |
| 18 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 time | compound |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | conj |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 degrees | nummod |
| 23 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 means | obj |
| 24 | east | east | ADV | _ | 23 degrees | advmod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 west | cc |
| 26 | west | west | ADV | _ | 24 east | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | 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 | turn | present | the Earth | 15 degrees | hour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | |||
| 2 | mean | present | home time and local Sun time not said here | 15 degrees | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Topic |
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:16.
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, 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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