--- title: Before that, people set their clocks by shared signals: the red time… — Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic cl… · tree and pragmatics description: Before that, people set their clocks by shared signals: the red time ball at Greenwich drops at 1 pm every day, the BBC "pips" mark the hour, and in Britain you could dial 123 for the speaking clock. Who acts: people, red time ball, BBC pips, you. 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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 (people, red time ball, BBC pips, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.lesson:10 # text = Before that, people set their clocks by shared signals: the red time ball at Greenwich drops at 1 pm every day, the BBC "pips" mark the hour, and in Britain you could dial 123 for the speaking clock. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Before before ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 Greenwich Greenwich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 21 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 26 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 pips pip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 mark mark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 dial dial VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 40 123 123 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 obj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 speaking speaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 45 . . 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 | **set** | past | people | people's clocks | | that | | by shared signals | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clock=Theme before that=Destination | | 2 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **drop** | present | the red time ball Greenwich | | | 1 | day | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at 1=Trajectory | | 4 | **mark** | present | the BBC pips | | | | hour | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **dial** | could | you | 123 | | Britain | | for the speaking clock | tree rules | 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:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.lesson:10`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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