Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 19
Sailors turned a half-hour glass and rang the ship's bell each time: 8 bells = 8 × 30 minutes = 4 hours, one watch.
Who acts: Sailors · What happens: turn, ring · To what, where: hour glass, bell
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 (Sailors), 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 | Sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 hour | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 half | punct |
| 6 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glass | compound |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rang | cc |
| 9 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bell | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 13 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rang | obj |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rang | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 bells | punct |
| 17 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 bells | nummod |
| 18 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 19 | = | = | SYM | _ | 21 × | cc |
| 20 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 × | nummod |
| 21 | × | × | SYM | Number=Plur | 18 bells | conj |
| 22 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 minutes | nummod |
| 23 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 = | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | = | = | SYM | _ | 26 hours | cc |
| 25 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 hours | nummod |
| 26 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bells | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 watch | punct |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 watch | nummod |
| 29 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bells | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Sailors | a hour glass | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ring | past | Sailors not said here | the ship's bell | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
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:19.
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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