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title: Only in the 1700s did John Harrison build clocks good enough to keep… — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: Only in the 1700s did John Harrison build clocks good enough to keep time on a rocking ship. Who acts: John. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 11

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Only in the 1700s did John Harrison build clocks good enough to keep time on a rocking ship.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** build, keep · **To what, where:** clocks, 1700s, rocking ship

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:11
# text = Only in the 1700s did John Harrison build clocks good enough to keep time on a rocking ship.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 098-explorers-mapping-the-world.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	1700s	1700	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Harrison	Harrison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	rocking	rocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **build** | past · do-support | John | clocks |  | the 1700s |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Product |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | John *not said here* |  |  | a rocking ship | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on ship=Location |

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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:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-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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