Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 24
J, U and W were added to English only in the last thousand years.
What happens: add · To what, where: J, English
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» 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: 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 | J | J | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 added | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 U | punct |
| 3 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 J | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 W | cc |
| 5 | W | W | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 J | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | aux:pass |
| 7 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 English | case |
| 9 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 added | obl |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 added | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 years | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 added | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past · passive | J and U and W | English | year | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to english=Co-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:books:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:24.
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.
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