Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 10
Educated people already knew the Earth was round; Columbus's mistake was thinking it was much smaller than it is.
Who acts: Educated people, Earth, mistake, Columbus · What happens: educated, know, be, think, mistake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» 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 (Educated people, Earth, mistake, Columbus), 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 | Educated | educated | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 knew | advmod |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 round | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 round | cop |
| 8 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinking | punct |
| 10 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mistake | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Columbus | case |
| 12 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thinking | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thinking | aux |
| 14 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 knew | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 smaller | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 smaller | cop |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 smaller | advmod |
| 18 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 thinking | ccomp |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 is | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 is | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 smaller | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | educated | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | know | past | Educated people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Earth | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Columbus's mistake | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | mistake | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | present | mistake | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | mistake | Columbus | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.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): 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.
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