Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 13
The Egyptians split the day into 12 hours, one reason clocks still show 12 hours.
Who acts: Egyptians, clocks · What happens: split, show · To what, where: one reason
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 (Egyptians, clocks), 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 | 2 Egyptians | det |
| 2 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 split | nsubj |
| 3 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 split | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 hours | case |
| 7 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 split | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clocks | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 reason | nummod |
| 11 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hours | appos |
| 12 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | nsubj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 show | advmod |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 reason | acl:relcl |
| 15 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 hours | nummod |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 split | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | past | the Egyptians | day; hour | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | show | present | clocks | one reason not said here | still; hour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=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:122-clocks-before-clocks.lesson:13.
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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