The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 10
The nursery rhyme Ring a ring o' roses was written down hundreds of years later and is probably not about the plague.
Who acts: nursery rhyme · What happens: r, write down, not be · To what, where: ring, nursery rhyme
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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 (nursery rhyme), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rhyme | det |
| 2 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rhyme | compound |
| 3 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Ring | r | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rhyme | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ring | obj |
| 7 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 roses | case |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 roses | punct |
| 9 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Ring | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 written | aux:pass |
| 11 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 written | compound:prt |
| 13 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 later | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hundreds | nmod |
| 16 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 written | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 plague | cc |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 plague | cop |
| 19 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 23 plague | advmod |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 plague | advmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 plague | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 plague | det |
| 23 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 written | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 written | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | r | gerund | the nursery rhyme not said here | a ring | of roses | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write down | past · passive | the nursery rhyme | late property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | about the plague; probably property | 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:history:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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