--- title: Miss Okafor squeezes all human time into one school day from midnigh… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: Miss Okafor squeezes all human time into one school day from midnight to midnight: farming starts a bit before 11 at night, writing at about 11:35, printing in Europe under three minutes before midnight, and electric light at home in the very last minute. Who acts: Miss, farming, starts. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss, farming, starts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:5 # text = Miss Okafor squeezes all human time into one school day from midnight to midnight: farming starts a bit before 11 at night, writing at about 11:35, printing in Europe under three minutes before midnight, and electric light at home in the very last minute. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Miss miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Okafor okafor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 squeezes squeeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 5 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 farming farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound 17 starts start NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 before before ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 11:35 11:35 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 printing print VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nmod 33 under under ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nmod 36 before before ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 very very ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **squeeze** | present | Miss | | | | day; midnight; time | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **start** | | farming | a bit | | | before 11 at night | | tree rules | | 3 | **write** | gerund | starts *not said here* | | | 11:35 | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **print** | gerund | starts *not said here* | | | Europe | minute | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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