Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 9
In 1088 in China, Su Song built a water-powered clock tower over 10 metres high with a turning globe of the stars on top.
Who acts: Su Song · What happens: build, power · To what, where: powered clock tower, 1088
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 (Su Song), 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 1088 | case |
| 2 | 1088 | 1088 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 built | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 China | case |
| 4 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 1088 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1088 | punct |
| 6 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Song | compound |
| 7 | Song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | nsubj |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 powered | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 12 | powered | power | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tower | amod |
| 13 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tower | compound |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 10 | advmod |
| 16 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 metres | nummod |
| 17 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 high | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tower | amod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 globe | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 globe | det |
| 21 | turning | turning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 globe | compound |
| 22 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 stars | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stars | det |
| 25 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 globe | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 globe | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 built | 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 | build | past | Su Song | a powered clock tower | 1088 in China | with a turning globe of the stars on top | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tower=Theme with globe=Source | ||
| 2 | power | participle | tree rules |
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:9.
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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