Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 0

Long ago people measured with hands, feet and steps, but everyone's feet are different, so the same room could be "ten feet" for one person and "twelve" for another.

Who acts: people, feet, same room · What happens: measure, be · To what, where: ten feet

This is a sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 (people, feet, same room), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 measured	advmod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 measured	nsubj
4	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 hands	case
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 measured	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feet	punct
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 steps	cc
10	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feet	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 different	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 different	cc
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 feet	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 everyone	case
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 different	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 different	cop
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 measured	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 feet	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	27 feet	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 room	amod
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feet	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 feet	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 feet	cop
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 feet	punct
26	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 feet	nummod
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 different	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 feet	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 person	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 person	nummod
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feet	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 twelve	cc
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 twelve	punct
34	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 different	conj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 twelve	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 another	case
37	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 twelve	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 measured	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	measure	past	people		with hands and feet and steps; ago property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	everyone's feet		different property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	could	the same room	ten feet	for one person	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:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:0.

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 ×3, R8-pos-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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