Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 4
The Earth turns 15 degrees an hour, so if your clock still shows London time and the Sun is highest at 2 pm, you are 30 degrees west of London.
Who acts: Earth, clock, Sun, you · What happens: turn, show, be · To what, where: 15 degrees, 2, 30 degrees
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 (Earth, clock, Sun, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 degrees | nummod |
| 5 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | obj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shows | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 shows | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 shows | mark |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 clock | nmod:poss |
| 12 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | nsubj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 shows | advmod |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 turns | conj |
| 15 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 time | compound |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 highest | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sun | det |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 highest | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 highest | cop |
| 21 | highest | highest | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 shows | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 2 | case |
| 23 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 highest | obl |
| 24 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 2 | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 2 | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 degrees | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 degrees | cop |
| 28 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 degrees | nummod |
| 29 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turns | parataxis |
| 30 | west | west | ADV | _ | 29 degrees | advmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 London | case |
| 32 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 west | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | 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 | turn | present | the Earth | 15 degrees | hour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent degree=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | present | your clock | still; time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Sun | 2 pm | highest property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | you | 30 degrees | west 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:4.
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 ×2, 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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