--- title: The 100-metre world record, 9.58 seconds, was set by Usain Bolt in 2… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics description: The 100-metre world record, 9.58 seconds, was set by Usain Bolt in 2009; a fast 9-year-old might take about 16 to 18 seconds. Who acts: Usain, fast year old. 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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 (Usain, fast year old), 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:12 # text = The 100-metre world record, 9.58 seconds, was set by Usain Bolt in 2009; a fast 9-year-old might take about 16 to 18 seconds. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 5 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 9.58 9.58 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:unmarked 10 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Usain Usain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 Bolt Bolt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 2009 2009 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 20 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 21 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 26 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ _ 32 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past · passive | Usain | the metre world record | | 2009 | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 2009=Destination | | 2 | **take** | might | a fast year old | | | | second | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:12`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alarms, stopwatches and how long a sec…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is/11/) - next →: [Alarms, stopwatches and how long a sec…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is/)