--- title: The word "clock" comes from an old word for bell, because they rang… — Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, ca… · tree and pragmatics description: The word "clock" comes from an old word for bell, because they rang the hours: Salisbury Cathedral's clock, from about 1386, still has no face and just strikes the hours. Who acts: word, Sailors, clock. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, Sailors, clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:122-clocks-before-clocks.lesson:11 # text = The word "clock" comes from an old word for bell, because they rang the hours: Salisbury Cathedral's clock, from about 1386, still has no face and just strikes the hours. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 122-clocks-before-clocks.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 Salisbury Salisbury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 Cathedral Cathedral PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 1386 1386 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 strikes strike VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | | 2 | **ring** | past | Sailors *= sailor* | | | | hour | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | Salisbury Cathedral's clock from 1386 | no face | | | still | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 4 | **strike** | present | Salisbury Cathedral's clock from 1386 *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Clocks before clocks: sundials, water…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/10/) - next →: [Clocks before clocks: sundials, water…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/)