Day and night, shadows and sundials, sentence 14
A sundial shows Sun time; in British summer time clocks are 1 hour ahead of it, so 1 pm on a sundial is 2 pm on a watch.
Who acts: sundial, clocks, 1 pm · What happens: show, be, p.m. · To what, where: 2, watch
This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, shadows and sundials» 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 (sundial, clocks, 1 pm), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sundial | det |
| 2 | sundial | sundial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 hour | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | compound |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ahead | obl |
| 11 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ahead | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ahead | cop |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 hour | nummod |
| 14 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ahead | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ahead | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 2 | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 pm | advmod |
| 20 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 pm | nummod |
| 21 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pm | nsubj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 sundial | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sundial | det |
| 24 | sundial | sundial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pm | nmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 2 | cop |
| 26 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 pm | nummod |
| 27 | pm | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ahead | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 watch | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 watch | det |
| 30 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pm | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a sundial | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | clocks | hour; time | of stick; ahead property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | 2 | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | p.m. | 1 pm on a sundial | a watch | tree rules |
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:world:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.lesson:14.
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.
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