Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 2
Other discoveries came from careful work: Antoine Lavoisier weighed everything before and after burning and showed that nothing is lost, and Marie Curie spent years separating tiny amounts of new elements from tonnes of rock.
Who acts: Other discoveries, Antoine, Marie · What happens: come, weigh, burn, show, lose, spend · To what, where: careful work, everything, nothing, tiny amounts, new elements · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Other discoveries, Antoine, Marie), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 discoveries | amod |
| 2 | discoveries | discovery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 5 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 work | amod |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 weighed | punct |
| 8 | Antoine | Antoine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 weighed | nsubj |
| 9 | Lavoisier | Lavoisier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Antoine | flat |
| 10 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 weighed | obj |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 burning | mark |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 burning | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 burning | mark |
| 15 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 weighed | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 showed | cc |
| 17 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 weighed | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 lost | mark |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux:pass |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 showed | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spent | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 spent | cc |
| 24 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 spent | nsubj |
| 25 | Curie | Curie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Marie | flat |
| 26 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 spent | obj |
| 28 | separating | separate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 spent | advcl |
| 29 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 amounts | amod |
| 30 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 separating | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 elements | case |
| 32 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 elements | amod |
| 33 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 amounts | nmod |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 tonnes | case |
| 35 | tonnes | tonne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 separating | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 rock | case |
| 37 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tonnes | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Other discoveries | careful work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | weigh | past | Antoine | everything | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme everything=Value | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | Antoine not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | show | past | Antoine not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | lose | present · passive | nothing | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | spend | past | Marie | year | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | separate | gerund | Marie not said here | tiny amounts of new elements | from tonnes of rock | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent amount=Patient from tonne=Co-Patient | |||
| 8 | amount | new elements | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:chemistry:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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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