Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 20
In 1884 countries chose Greenwich as 0 degrees longitude (longitude says how far east or west a place is), the Prime Meridian.
Who acts: countries, longitude, place · What happens: choose, say, be · To what, where: Greenwich, 1884 · 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 (countries, longitude, place), 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 1884 | case |
| 2 | 1884 | 1884 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 chose | obl |
| 3 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chose | nsubj |
| 4 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Greenwich | Greenwich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chose | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 longitude | case |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 degrees | nummod |
| 8 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 longitude | compound |
| 9 | longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chose | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 longitude | punct |
| 11 | longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 longitude | conj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 longitude | acl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 says | ccomp |
| 15 | east | east | ADV | _ | 14 far | advmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 west | cc |
| 17 | west | west | ADV | _ | 15 east | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 far | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 far | cop |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Meridian | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Meridian | det |
| 24 | Prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Meridian | amod |
| 25 | Meridian | Meridian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 longitude | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | countries | Greenwich | 1884 | as degrees longitude and longitude | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greenwich=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | longitude not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a place | east, far 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:20.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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