--- title: A pendulum four times as long takes twice as long to swing, so a clo… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A pendulum four times as long takes twice as long to swing, so a clock that runs slow is mended by moving the weight up to shorten the pendulum. Who acts: pendulum, clock. 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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 (pendulum, clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:14 # text = A pendulum four times as long takes twice as long to swing, so a clock that runs slow is mended by moving the weight up to shorten the pendulum. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pendulum pendulum NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 7 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 10 advmod _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 slow slow ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 mended mend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 shorten shorten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pendulum pendulum NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | a pendulum four times | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **swing** | to-infinitive | a pendulum four times *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **run** | present | a clock | | | | | slow *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mend** | present · passive | | a clock | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **move up** | gerund | | the weight | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | | 6 | **shorten** | to-infinitive | | the pendulum | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pendulum=Patient | 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. 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