Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 4

The Greeks called it a clepsydra, "water thief", and gave every speaker in court the same amount of water, just like a debate-club timer.

Who acts: Greeks · What happens: call, give, amount · To what, where: clock, same amount, speaker, court, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Greeks), 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 Greeks	det
2	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clepsydra	det
6	clepsydra	clepsydra	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thief	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 thief	punct
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thief	compound
10	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clepsydra	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 thief	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 speaker	det
16	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 court	case
18	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 speaker	nmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 amount	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 amount	amod
21	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 amount	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 timer	punct
25	just	just	ADV	_	31 timer	advmod
26	like	like	ADP	_	31 timer	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 timer	det
28	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 club	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 debate	punct
30	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 timer	compound
31	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	the Greeks	clock				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	give	past	the Greeks not said here	the same amount of water	every speaker	court	like a club timer	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent speaker=Recipient amount=Theme
3	amount			water				nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:4.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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