Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 15
When measuring with a ruler you must start from the zero mark.
Who acts: you · What happens: measure, start · To what, where: zero mark
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 2 measuring | mark |
| 2 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 start | advcl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 ruler | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ruler | det |
| 5 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 measuring | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 start | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 start | aux |
| 8 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 mark | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mark | det |
| 11 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 mark | nummod |
| 12 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 start | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | gerund | you not said here | with a ruler | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | must | you | the zero mark | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:15.
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 ×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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