Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 21
A quartz crystal in a watch vibrates 32,768 times every second.
Who acts: quartz crystal · What happens: vibrate
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 (quartz crystal), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crystal | det |
| 2 | quartz | quartz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crystal | compound |
| 3 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vibrates | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 watch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 watch | det |
| 6 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crystal | nmod |
| 7 | vibrates | vibrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 32,768 | 32,768 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vibrates | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 second | det |
| 11 | second | second | NOUN | _ | 7 vibrates | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vibrates | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vibrate | present | a quartz crystal in a watch | second; time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:21.
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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