Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 22
The word "clock" comes from an old word for bell, "clocca".
Who acts: word · What happens: come · To what, where: old word
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 (word), 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 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 clock | punct |
| 4 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | appos |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 clock | punct |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 word | amod |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 bell | case |
| 12 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clocca | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 clocca | punct |
| 15 | clocca | clocca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 word | appos |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 clocca | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | 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 | come | present | the word | a old word for bell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location |
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:22.
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): R8-pos-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.
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