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title: In 1088 in China, Su Song built a water-powered clock tower over 10… — Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 dependen
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# Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 9

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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.

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**Who acts:** Su Song · **What happens:** build, power · **To what, where:** powered clock tower, 1088

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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 (Su Song), 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:9
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1088	1088	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	powered	power	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	turning	turning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **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 |

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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: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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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