Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 17

Pythagoras studied triangles, Archimedes discovered how things float and shouted Eureka, and Eratosthenes measured the size of the Earth with shadows.

Who acts: Pythagoras, Archimedes, things, Eratosthenes · What happens: study, discover, float, shout, measure · To what, where: triangles, Eureka, size

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» of the history 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 (Pythagoras, Archimedes, things, Eratosthenes), 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	Pythagoras	Pythagoras	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 studied	nsubj
2	studied	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	triangles	triangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 studied	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 discovered	punct
5	Archimedes	Archimedes	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 discovered	nsubj
6	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 studied	parataxis
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 float	advmod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 float	nsubj
9	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 discovered	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shouted	cc
11	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 discovered	conj
12	Eureka	Eureka	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shouted	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 measured	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 measured	cc
15	Eratosthenes	Eratosthenes	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 measured	nsubj
16	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 studied	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 size	det
18	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 measured	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Earth	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Earth	det
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 size	nmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 shadows	case
23	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 measured	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 studied	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	study	past	Pythagoras	triangles		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triangle=Topic
2	discover	past	Archimedes			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	float	present	things			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shout speech: express	past	Archimedes not said here	Eureka		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eureka=Topic
5	measure	past	Eratosthenes	the size of the Earth	with shadows	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme size=Value

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:history:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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