Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 24

Britain's speaking clock (dial 123) began in 1936, and the BBC's six "pips" have marked the hour since 1924; the last pip marks the exact start of the hour.

Who acts: speaking clock, six pips, last pip · What happens: dial, begin, mark, start · To what, where: 123, 1936, exact start, hour

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 (speaking clock, six pips, last pip), 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	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 clock	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Britain	case
3	speaking	speaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clock	compound
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 dial	punct
6	dial	dial	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 clock	appos
7	123	123	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 dial	obj
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 dial	punct
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1936	case
11	1936	1936	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 began	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 marked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 marked	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 BBC	det
15	BBC	BBC	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 pips	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 BBC	case
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pips	nummod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 pips	punct
19	pips	pip	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 marked	nsubj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 pips	punct
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 marked	aux
22	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 began	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hour	det
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marked	obj
25	since	since	ADP	_	26 1924	case
26	1924	1924	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 marked	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 marks	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pip	det
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pip	amod
30	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 marks	nsubj
31	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 began	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 start	det
33	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 start	amod
34	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 marks	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 hour	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hour	det
37	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 start	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	dial	infinitive		123			tree rules
2	begin	past	Britain's speaking clock		1936		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	mark	present · perfect	the BBC's six pips			since 1924; hour	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mark	present	the last pip	the exact start of the hour			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Destination
5	start			the hour			nom start «event transitive»: of=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:24.

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 ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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