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description: John Harrison, a carpenter born in Yorkshire, built sea clocks in the 1700s that kept good time on rolling ships, so sailors could find how far east or west they were. Who acts: John, sea clocks, sailors. A sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» of t
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# Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 15

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John Harrison, a carpenter born in Yorkshire, built sea clocks in the 1700s that kept good time on rolling ships, so sailors could find how far east or west they were.

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**Who acts:** John, sea clocks, sailors · **What happens:** bear, build, keep, roll, find, be · **To what, where:** carpenter, Yorkshire, sea clocks, 1700s, rolling ships · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (John, sea clocks, sailors), 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:15
# text = John Harrison, a carpenter born in Yorkshire, built sea clocks in the 1700s that kept good time on rolling ships, so sailors could find how far east or west they were.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Harrison	Harrison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	1700s	1700	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
29	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	_
30	east	east	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	west	west	ADV	RB	_	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | a carpenter *not said here* |  | Yorkshire |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **build** | past | John | sea clocks |  | the 1700s |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Product |
| 3 | **keep** | past | sea clocks |  |  | rolling ships | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on ship=Location |
| 4 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | could | sailors |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | sailors *= sailor* |  |  |  |  | east, far *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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, 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/).

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