Famous discoveries told as stories, sentence 3

Some came from a clever idea: Dmitri Mendeleev wrote each element on a card, laid them out like a game of patience, and saw a pattern so strong that he could predict elements nobody had found yet.

Who acts: Some, Dmitri, elements · What happens: come, write, lay out, see, predict, find · To what, where: clever idea, element, card, elements, pattern, nobody

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 (Some, Dmitri, elements), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 idea	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 wrote	punct
8	Dmitri	Dmitri	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wrote	nsubj
9	Mendeleev	Mendeleev	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Dmitri	flat
10	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 element	det
12	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrote	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 card	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 card	det
15	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrote	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wrote	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laid	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	17 laid	compound:prt
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 game	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 game	det
22	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 patience	case
24	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 game	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pattern	det
29	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 strong	advmod
31	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pattern	amod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 predict	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 predict	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 predict	aux
35	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 strong	advcl
36	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 predict	obj
37	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 found	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 found	aux
39	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 elements	acl:relcl
40	yet	yet	ADV	_	39 found	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Some		a clever idea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from idea=Initial_Location
2	write	past	Dmitri	each element	a card			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent element=Theme on card=Destination
3	lay out	past	Dmitri not said here	elements = element			like a game of patience	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result
4	see	past	Some not said here	a pattern				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus
5	predict	could	Dmitri	elements				vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot element=Topic
6	find	past · perfect · passive	elements not said here	nobody		yet		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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:3.

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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