--- title: Pendulums can't keep time on rolling seas, so this was impossible un… — Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic cl… · tree and pragmatics description: Pendulums can't keep time on rolling seas, so this was impossible until John Harrison, a carpenter born in Yorkshire, built sea clocks in the 1700s. Who acts: Pendulums, this, John. 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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 (Pendulums, this, John), 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:5 # text = Pendulums can't keep time on rolling seas, so this was impossible until John Harrison, a carpenter born in Yorkshire, built sea clocks in the 1700s. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Pendulums pendulum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 rolling roll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 15 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 16 Harrison Harrison PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 carpenter carpenter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 20 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Yorkshire Yorkshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 25 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 1700s 1700 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **keep** | can | Pendulums | | | rolling seas | time | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on sea=Location | | 2 | **roll** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | this | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **bear** | participle | | a carpenter *not said here* | | Yorkshire | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **build** | past | John | sea clocks | | the 1700s | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Product | 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:5`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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,…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/4/) - next →: [Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time,…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks/)