Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 11
Joseph Priestley found how to put gas into water and made the first soda water, using gas from a brewery; he also discovered oxygen, as Carl Scheele did on his own.
Who acts: Joseph, Carl · What happens: find, put, make, use, discover, do · To what, where: gas, water, first soda water, brewery, oxygen, own
This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous discoveries told as stories» of the chemistry 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 (Joseph, Carl), 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 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | Priestley | Priestley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Joseph | flat |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 put | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 found | advcl |
| 7 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 water | amod |
| 14 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | compound |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 using | punct |
| 17 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | advcl |
| 18 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 using | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 brewery | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 brewery | det |
| 21 | brewery | brewery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 using | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 discovered | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 discovered | nsubj |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 discovered | advmod |
| 25 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 26 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 discovered | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 did | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 did | mark |
| 29 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 did | nsubj |
| 30 | Scheele | Scheele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Carl | flat |
| 31 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 discovered | advcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 own | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 own | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 did | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Joseph | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | Joseph not said here | gas | water | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gas=Goal | |||
| 3 | make | past | Joseph not said here | the first soda water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product | ||||
| 4 | use | gerund | Joseph not said here | gas | a brewery | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Patient | |||
| 5 | discover | past | Joseph | oxygen | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Topic | ||||
| 6 | do | past | Carl | Carl's own | vn act-114-1 «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:chemistry:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:11.
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. 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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