--- title: A pendulum about 1 metre long takes about 1 second to swing one way. — Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic cl… · tree and pragmatics description: A pendulum about 1 metre long takes about 1 second to swing one way. Who acts: pendulum. A sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/) / 13 # Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 13 A pendulum about 1 metre long takes about 1 second to swing one way. **Who acts:** pendulum · **What happens:** take, swing · **To what, where:** one way This is a sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pendulum), 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:13 # text = A pendulum about 1 metre long takes about 1 second to swing one way. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pendulum pendulum NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 4 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod:unmarked 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 7 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 9 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 15 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **take** | present | a pendulum | | | | second | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **swing** | to-infinitive | a pendulum *not said here* | one way | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:13`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time,…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/12/) - next →: [Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time,…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/)