--- title: Trains needed one time, so British railways used London time from th… — Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic cl… · tree and pragmatics description: Trains needed one time, so British railways used London time from the 1840s, and in 1884 countries chose Greenwich as 0 degrees longitude, the Prime Meridian, from which time zones are counted. Who acts: Trains, British railways, countries. 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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 (Trains, British railways, countries), 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:7 # text = Trains needed one time, so British railways used London time from the 1840s, and in 1884 countries chose Greenwich as 0 degrees longitude, the Prime Meridian, from which time zones are counted. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 7 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 10 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl:unmarked 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 1840s 1840 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1884 1884 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 19 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 21 Greenwich Greenwich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 0 0 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 compound _ _ 25 longitude longitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 Meridian Meridian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obl _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl:relcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | past | Trains | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **use** | participle | British railways | | | the 1840s | time | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **choose** | past | countries | Greenwich | | 1884 | | as degrees longitude | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greenwich=Theme | | 4 | **count** | present · passive | | time zones | | the Prime Meridian | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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