--- title: Each town once set its clocks by the Sun; railways made Britain use… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics description: Each town once set its clocks by the Sun; railways made Britain use one time in the 1840s, and the world agreed time zones from the 1880s. Who acts: town, railways, Britain, world. 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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 (town, railways, Britain, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:21 # text = Each town once set its clocks by the Sun; railways made Britain use one time in the 1840s, and the world agreed time zones from the 1880s. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 advmod _ _ 4 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 1840s 1840 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 1880s 1880 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **set** | past | each town | town's clocks | | | | by the Sun; once *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clock=Theme by sun=Destination | | 2 | **make** | past | railways | Britain | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | infinitive | Britain *not said here* | | | | time | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the world | time zones | | the 1880s | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent zone=Topic | 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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:21`. **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. **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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