Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 26
Real life: people did not write in the Stone Age.
Who acts: people · What happens: not write · To what, where: Stone Age
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark» of the books 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 (people), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 write | punct |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 write | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 write | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 write | advmod |
| 7 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 life | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Age | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Age | det |
| 10 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Age | compound |
| 11 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 write | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not write | past · do-support | people | in the Stone Age | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:books:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:26.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.
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