Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 7
A metre is 100 centimetres, and a kilometre is 1000 metres.
Who acts: metre, kilometre · What happens: be · To what, where: 100 centimetres, 1000 metres
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 (metre, kilometre), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 metre | det |
| 2 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 centimetres | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 centimetres | cop |
| 4 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 centimetres | nummod |
| 5 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 metres | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 metres | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kilometre | det |
| 9 | kilometre | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 metres | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 metres | cop |
| 11 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 metres | nummod |
| 12 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 centimetres | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 centimetres | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a metre | 100 centimetres and 1000 metres | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a kilometre | 1000 metres | 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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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