Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 12
The ancient Egyptians used shadow clocks about 3,500 years ago, around 1500 BC.
Who acts: ancient Egyptians · What happens: use · To what, where: shadow clocks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» 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 (ancient Egyptians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Egyptians | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Egyptians | amod |
| 3 | Egyptians | egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | _ | 6 clocks | compound |
| 6 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 3,500 | advmod |
| 8 | 3,500 | 3500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 used | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 1500 | punct |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 13 1500 | advmod |
| 13 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 used | obl |
| 14 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 1500 | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the ancient Egyptians | shadow clocks | 1500 obl; ago property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient |
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:122-clocks-before-clocks.lesson:12.
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 ×3, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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