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title: The Egyptians split the day into 12 hours, one reason clocks still s… — Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Egyptians split the day into 12 hours, one reason clocks still show 12 hours. Who acts: Egyptians, clocks. A sentence of the lesson «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 13

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The Egyptians split the day into 12 hours, one reason clocks still show 12 hours.

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**Who acts:** Egyptians, clocks · **What happens:** split, show · **To what, where:** one reason

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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 (Egyptians, clocks), 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:13
# text = The Egyptians split the day into 12 hours, one reason clocks still show 12 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | past | the Egyptians |  |  |  | day; hour |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | present | clocks | one reason *not said here* |  |  | still; hour |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient |

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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.

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**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:13`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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