Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 5
Their thinkers asked big questions: Socrates by asking question after question, Aristotle by studying everything, Archimedes in his bath, and Hippocrates by teaching that illness has natural causes.
Who acts: thinkers, illness · What happens: ask, study, teach, have · To what, where: big questions, Socrates, question, everything, natural causes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thinkers, illness), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thinkers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thinkers | thinker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 questions | amod |
| 5 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Socrates | punct |
| 7 | Socrates | Socrates | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 asking | mark |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 asked | advcl |
| 10 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asking | obj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 question | case |
| 12 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Aristotle | punct |
| 14 | Aristotle | Aristotle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Socrates | conj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 studying | mark |
| 16 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 asked | advcl |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 studying | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Archimedes | punct |
| 19 | Archimedes | Archimedes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Aristotle | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bath | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bath | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Archimedes | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hippocrates | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Hippocrates | cc |
| 25 | Hippocrates | Hippocrates | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Aristotle | conj |
| 26 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 27 teaching | mark |
| 27 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 studying | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 has | mark |
| 29 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 teaching | ccomp |
| 31 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 causes | amod |
| 32 | causes | cause | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 has | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | 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 | ask speech: ask | past | Greeks's thinkers | big questions | Socrates and Aristotle and Archimedes in Archimedes's bath and Hippocrates | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Greeks's thinkers not said here | question | after question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||
| 3 | study | gerund | Greeks's thinkers not said here | everything | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | ||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | gerund | Greeks's thinkers not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | present | illness | natural causes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient |
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:5.
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. 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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