Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 5
Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg in Germany built a printing press with movable metal letters that could be reused.
Who acts: Johannes · What happens: build, reuse · To what, where: printing press, 1450, metal letters
This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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 (Johannes), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 2 1450 | case |
| 2 | 1450 | 1450 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 built | obl |
| 3 | Johannes | Johannes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 built | nsubj |
| 4 | Gutenberg | Gutenberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Johannes | flat |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Germany | case |
| 6 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Johannes | nmod |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 press | det |
| 9 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 press | compound |
| 10 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 letters | case |
| 12 | movable | movable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 metal | amod |
| 13 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 letters | compound |
| 14 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 press | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 reused | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 reused | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 reused | aux:pass |
| 18 | reused | reuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 letters | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Johannes in Germany | a printing press | 1450 | with metal letters | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent press=Theme with letter=Source | ||
| 2 | reuse | could · passive | metal letters | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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