Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 6

Once, every town kept its own Sun time: Bristol's Corn Exchange clock still has two minute hands, 10 minutes apart, for Bristol and London time.

Who acts: town, Exchange clock · What happens: keep, have · To what, where: two minute hands

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 (town, Exchange clock), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 kept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 town	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 time	compound
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
11	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 clock	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Bristol	case
13	Corn	Corn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Exchange	compound
14	Exchange	Exchange	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 clock	compound
15	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 has	advmod
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hands	nummod
19	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hands	compound
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 has	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 minutes	punct
22	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 minutes	nummod
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hands	conj
24	apart	apart	ADV	_	23 minutes	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 apart	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 time	case
27	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 time	compound
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 London	cc
29	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Bristol	conj
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	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	keep	past	every town				time	once property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	Bristol's Exchange clock	two minute hands and 10 minutes			still; time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:6.

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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