Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 11
Educated people in Columbus's time already knew the Earth was round, so the story that he proved it is a myth.
Who acts: Educated people, Earth, Columbus, story · What happens: educated, know, be, prove · To what, where: story, myth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» of the geography 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 (Educated people, Earth, Columbus, story), 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 | Educated | educated | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Columbus | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 7 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 knew | advmod |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Earth | det |
| 10 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 round | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 round | cop |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 myth | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 myth | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 myth | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 proved | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 proved | nsubj |
| 19 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 story | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 proved | obj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 myth | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 myth | det |
| 23 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | 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 | educated | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | know | past | Educated people in Columbus's time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Earth | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prove | past | Columbus | story | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the story | a myth | tree rules |
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:geography:033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.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, 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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