The future: fears, rules and your part, sentence 16
Every big invention, such as the telephone, seemed strange or scary at first and later became normal.
Who acts: big invention · What happens: seem, become
This is a sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» of the ai 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 (big invention), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 invention | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 invention | amod |
| 3 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 telephone | punct |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 telephone | case |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 such | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 telephone | det |
| 8 | telephone | telephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invention | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 invention | punct |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 scary | cc |
| 13 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strange | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 first | case |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 seemed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 17 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 became | advmod |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seemed | conj |
| 19 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 became | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed hedge=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | every big invention such the telephone | strange property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | every big invention such the telephone not said here | late, normal property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:ai:025-future-fears-rules.lesson:16.
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.
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