Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 17
The red time ball at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, has dropped at 1 pm every day since 1833 so ships could set their clocks.
Who acts: red time ball, ships · What happens: drop, set · To what, where: 1, 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 (red time ball, ships), 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 | 4 ball | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ball | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ball | compound |
| 4 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Observatory | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Observatory | det |
| 7 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | _ | 8 Observatory | flat |
| 8 | Observatory | Observatory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ball | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Greenwich | punct |
| 10 | Greenwich | Greenwich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Observatory | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ball | punct |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dropped | aux |
| 13 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 1 | case |
| 15 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 dropped | obl |
| 16 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 20 1833 | case |
| 20 | 1833 | 1833 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 dropped | obl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 set | advmod |
| 22 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 set | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dropped | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 clocks | nmod:poss |
| 26 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 set | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present · perfect | the red time ball at the Royal Observatory | 1 pm | since 1833; day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at 1=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | set | could | ships | ships's clocks | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clock=Result |
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:17.
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): R7-rel-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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