Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 20
Mechanical clocks spread in Europe from about 1300, and China built a great water-driven clock tower in the 1090s.
Who acts: Mechanical clocks, China · What happens: spread, build, drive · To what, where: Europe, great driven clock tower, 1090s
This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» of the history 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 (Mechanical clocks, China), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mechanical | mechanical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clocks | amod |
| 2 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Europe | case |
| 5 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 1300 | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 1300 | advmod |
| 8 | 1300 | 1300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 spread | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 built | cc |
| 11 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 built | nsubj |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tower | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 driven | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 17 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tower | amod |
| 18 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tower | compound |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1090s | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 1090s | det |
| 22 | 1090s | 1090 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 12 built | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | Mechanical clocks | Europe | from 1300 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europe=Location | |||
| 2 | build | past | China | a great driven clock tower | the 1090s | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Product | |||
| 3 | drive | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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, 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:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:20.
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.
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