Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 6
In China, incense sticks burned slowly, and little balls on threads dropped onto a plate with a clang: an alarm with no electricity.
Who acts: incense sticks, little balls · What happens: burn, drop · To what, where: alarm, China, plate
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 (incense sticks, little balls), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 China | case |
| 2 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 burned | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 China | punct |
| 4 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sticks | compound |
| 5 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burned | nsubj |
| 6 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 burned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dropped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dropped | cc |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 balls | amod |
| 11 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dropped | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 threads | case |
| 13 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 balls | nmod |
| 14 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burned | conj |
| 15 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 17 plate | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 plate | det |
| 17 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dropped | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 clang | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 clang | det |
| 20 | clang | clang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dropped | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 alarm | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 alarm | det |
| 23 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burned | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 electricity | case |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 electricity | det |
| 26 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 alarm | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | incense sticks | a alarm with no electricity | China | slowly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | ||
| 2 | drop | past | little balls on threads | a plate | with a clang | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme onto plate=Trajectory |
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:6.
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, R6-punct-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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