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title: Sailors turned a half-hour glass and rang the ship's bell each time,… — Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sailors turned a half-hour glass and rang the ship's bell each time, and eight bells ended a 4-hour watch (a sailor's turn on duty). Who acts: Sailors, eight bells. A sentence of the lesson «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» of the world course of Mova's primary 
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# Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 8

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Sailors turned a half-hour glass and rang the ship's bell each time, and eight bells ended a 4-hour watch (a sailor's turn on duty).

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**Who acts:** Sailors, eight bells · **What happens:** turn, ring, end · **To what, where:** hour glass, bell, hour watch

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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 (Sailors, eight bells), 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:8
# text = Sailors turned a half-hour glass and rang the ship's bell each time, and eight bells ended a 4-hour watch (a sailor's turn on duty).
# 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	Sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Sailors | a hour glass |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glass=Theme |
| 2 | **ring** | past | Sailors *not said here* | the ship's bell |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 3 | **end** | past | eight bells | a hour watch |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality watch=Eventuality |

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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:8`.

**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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