--- title: A stopwatch is a clock you start and stop to measure how long someth… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics description: A stopwatch is a clock you start and stop to measure how long something takes, often to a tenth or hundredth of a second. Who acts: stopwatch, you, something. 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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 (stopwatch, you, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:10 # text = A stopwatch is a clock you start and stop to measure how long something takes, often to a tenth or hundredth of a second. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stopwatch stopwatch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 measure measure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 13 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 15 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 hundredth hundredth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 stopwatch | a clock | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **start** | present | you | a clock *not said here* | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Eventuality | | 3 | **stop** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **measure** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | present | something | | | | | to a tenth of a second or hundredth *result*; long *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to tenth=Result | 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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