Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 10

Longitude was much harder: the Earth turns a quarter-circle every six hours, so comparing local noon with a clock still set to home time shows how far east or west you are.

Who acts: Longitude, Earth, comparing, you · What happens: be, turn, compare, set, show · To what, where: quarter circle, clock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» 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 (Longitude, Earth, comparing, 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	Longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harder	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 harder	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 harder	advmod
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 turns	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 turns	nsubj
8	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harder	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 circle	det
10	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 circle	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 quarter	punct
12	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turns	obj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hours	det
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hours	nummod
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turns	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shows	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 comparing	advmod
18	comparing	compare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 shows	csubj
19	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 noon	amod
20	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comparing	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 clock	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 clock	det
23	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comparing	obl
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 set	advmod
25	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 clock	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 time	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 time	compound
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	obl
29	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turns	conj
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 far	advmod
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 shows	ccomp
32	east	east	ADV	_	31 far	advmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 west	cc
34	west	west	ADV	_	32 east	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 far	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 far	cop
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 harder	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Longitude			hard property	tree rules
2	turn	present	the Earth	a quarter circle	hour		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent circle=Theme
3	compare	gerund			noon	with a clock	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with clock=Co-Patient
4	set	participle		a clock not said here	still; time		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	show	present	comparing				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	you			east, far 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:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:10.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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