Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 14

A water clock lets water drip out at a steady speed, and the level falls past a mark for each hour; it works at night and on cloudy days.

Who acts: water clock, water, level, clock · What happens: let, drip out, fall, work · To what, where: steady speed, mark

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 (water clock, water, level, clock), 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	3 clock	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clock	compound
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	nsubj
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drip	nsubj
6	drip	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lets	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 drip	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 speed	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 speed	det
10	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 speed	amod
11	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drip	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 falls	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 falls	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 level	det
15	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 falls	nsubj
16	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lets	conj
17	past	past	ADP	_	19 mark	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mark	det
19	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 falls	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 hour	case
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 hour	det
22	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mark	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 works	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 works	nsubj
25	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lets	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 night	case
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 works	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 days	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 days	case
30	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 days	amod
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 works	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	let	present	a water clock			tree rules
2	drip out	infinitive	water	a steady speed		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	fall	present	the level	a mark for each hour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past mark=Initial_Location
4	work	present	clock		day; night	vn employment-95.3 «NP 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:world:122-clocks-before-clocks.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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