--- title: The red time ball at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, has dropped a… — Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic cl… · tree and pragmatics description: The red time ball at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, has dropped at 1 pm every day since 1833 so ships could set their clocks. Who acts: red time ball, ships. 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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 (red time ball, ships), 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:17 # text = The red time ball at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, has dropped at 1 pm every day since 1833 so ships could set their clocks. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Royal Royal PROPN NNP _ 8 flat _ _ 8 Observatory Observatory PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Greenwich Greenwich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 16 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 since since ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1833 1833 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 22 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present · perfect | the red time ball at the Royal Observatory | | | 1 pm | since 1833; day | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at 1=Trajectory | | 2 | **set** | could | ships | ships's clocks | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clock=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.lesson:17`. **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): 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: [Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time,…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/16/) - next →: [Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time,…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/)