Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★, sentence 17
Eratosthenes measured the Earth around 240 BC, Mercator published his world map in 1569, Harrison's H4 watch was tested at sea in 1761, and the Greenwich prime meridian was agreed in 1884.
Who acts: Eratosthenes, Mercator · What happens: measure, publish, test, agree · To what, where: Earth, world map, 1569, H4 watch, sea, Greenwich prime meridian
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» 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 (Eratosthenes, Mercator), 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 | Eratosthenes | Eratosthenes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 measured | nsubj |
| 2 | measured | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Earth | det |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 measured | obj |
| 5 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 240 | advmod |
| 6 | 240 | 240 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Earth | appos |
| 7 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 240 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 published | punct |
| 9 | Mercator | Mercator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 published | nsubj |
| 10 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 measured | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 map | nmod:poss |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 map | compound |
| 13 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 published | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1569 | case |
| 15 | 1569 | 1569 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 published | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tested | punct |
| 17 | Harrison | Harrison | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 watch | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Harrison | case |
| 19 | H4 | H4 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 watch | compound |
| 20 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tested | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tested | aux:pass |
| 22 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 measured | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tested | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1761 | case |
| 26 | 1761 | 1761 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 tested | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 agreed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 agreed | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 meridian | det |
| 30 | Greenwich | Greenwich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 meridian | compound |
| 31 | prime | prime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 meridian | compound |
| 32 | meridian | meridian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 agreed | aux:pass |
| 34 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tested | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 1884 | case |
| 36 | 1884 | 1884 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 agreed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 measured | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | past | Eratosthenes | the Earth | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme earth=Value | ||||
| 2 | publish | past | Mercator | Mercator's world map | 1569 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Result | |||
| 3 | test | past · passive | Harrison's H4 watch | sea | in 1761 | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | the Greenwich prime meridian | 1884 | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: 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:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:17.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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