Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 14
Emeralds are green beryl, and the finest came from Colombia, where the Spanish took them from the 1500s.
Who acts: Emeralds, finest, Spanish · What happens: be, come, take · To what, where: green beryl, Colombia, Emeralds, 1500s
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 (Emeralds, finest, Spanish), 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 | Emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beryl | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beryl | cop |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beryl | amod |
| 4 | beryl | beryl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 finest | det |
| 8 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Colombia | case |
| 11 | Colombia | Colombia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 took | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Spanish | det |
| 15 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Colombia | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 1500s | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 1500s | det |
| 20 | 1500s | 1500 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 16 took | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beryl | 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 | is a | present | Emeralds | green beryl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the finest | Colombia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from colombia=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the Spanish | Emeralds = emerald | the 1500s | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from 1500=Initial_Location |
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:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.lesson:14.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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