Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 2

In 1656 Christiaan Huygens built a pendulum clock, and good clocks went from about 15 minutes wrong a day to about 15 seconds: 60 times better.

Who acts: Christiaan, good clocks · What happens: build, go · To what, where: pendulum clock, 1656

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 (Christiaan, good clocks), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1656	case
2	1656	1656	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 built	obl
3	Christiaan	Christiaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 built	nsubj
4	Huygens	Huygens	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Christiaan	flat
5	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clock	det
7	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clock	compound
8	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clocks	amod
12	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 minutes	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 15	advmod
16	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 minutes	nummod
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 minutes	amod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl:unmarked
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 seconds	case
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 15	advmod
23	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 seconds	nummod
24	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 better	punct
26	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 times	nummod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 better	obl:unmarked
28	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 seconds	amod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Christiaan	a pendulum clock		1656			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Product
2	go	past	good clocks				day; minute; second		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:2.

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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