Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 1
So people agreed on standard units that are the same for everyone: the metre for length, the kilogram for mass, the second for time and the degree Celsius for temperature.
Who acts: people, standard units · What happens: agree, be
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, standard units), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 units | case |
| 5 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 units | amod |
| 6 | units | unit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agreed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 same | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 same | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 units | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 everyone | case |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 same | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 metre | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 metre | det |
| 15 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 everyone | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 17 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 metre | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kilogram | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kilogram | det |
| 20 | kilogram | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 metre | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 mass | case |
| 22 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kilogram | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 second | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 second | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 same | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 second | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 temperature | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 degree | det |
| 30 | degree | Degree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Celsius | compound |
| 31 | Celsius | Celsius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 temperature | compound |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 temperature | case |
| 33 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 second | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | 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 | agree speech: agree | past | people | on standard units | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on unit=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | standard units | for everyone; same 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:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:1.
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, R6-punct-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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