Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 19
British railways chose London time, called railway time, in the 1840s.
Who acts: British railways, London time · What happens: choose, call · To what, where: 1840s, railway time · 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 (British railways, London 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 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 railways | amod |
| 2 | railways | railway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chose | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | compound |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 1840s | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1840s | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 1840s | det |
| 13 | 1840s | 1840s | NOUN | Number=Plur NumForm=Digit | 3 chose | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chose | 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 | choose | past | British railways | the 1840s | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | call | participle | London time not said here | railway time | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:19.
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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