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title: Once, every town kept its own Sun time: Bristol's Corn Exchange cloc… — Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic cl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once, every town kept its own Sun time: Bristol's Corn Exchange clock still has two minute hands, 10 minutes apart, for Bristol and London time. Who acts: town, Exchange clock. A sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» of the world course of Mova's pr
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# Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 6

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Once, every town kept its own Sun time: Bristol's Corn Exchange clock still has two minute hands, 10 minutes apart, for Bristol and London time.

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**Who acts:** town, Exchange clock · **What happens:** keep, have · **To what, where:** two minute hands

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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 (town, Exchange clock), 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:6
# text = Once, every town kept its own Sun time: Bristol's Corn Exchange clock still has two minute hands, 10 minutes apart, for Bristol and London time.
# 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): no change
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Corn	Corn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Exchange	Exchange	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | every town |  |  |  | time | once *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | Bristol's Exchange clock | two minute hands and 10 minutes |  |  | still; time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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