Day and night, shadows and sundials, sentence 6

It tells Sun time, so in British summer time it reads an hour behind the watch, and on a cloudy day it tells nothing at all.

Who acts: Earth · What happens: tell, read · To what, where: watch, nothing, all · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Earth), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 time	compound
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reads	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	12 reads	advmod
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	12 reads	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reads	nsubj
12	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	parataxis
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hour	det
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reads	obj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 watch	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 watch	det
17	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reads	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tells	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tells	cc
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 day	det
22	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tells	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tells	nsubj
25	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 reads	conj
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 tells	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 nothing	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Earth			time	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	present	Earth		the watch	hour; time	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	present	Earth	nothing	all	day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient

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: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): R5-strong ×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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