Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 11
The voyage proved that ships could sail all the way around the Earth, and that the Earth was bigger than people had thought.
Who acts: voyage, ships, Earth, people · What happens: prove, sail, be, think · To what, where: way, Earth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» 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 (voyage, ships, Earth, people), 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 | 2 voyage | det |
| 2 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | nsubj |
| 3 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 sail | mark |
| 5 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sail | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sail | aux |
| 7 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 proved | ccomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 way | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sail | obl |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 Earth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Earth | det |
| 13 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sail | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bigger | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bigger | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 bigger | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Earth | det |
| 18 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bigger | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bigger | cop |
| 20 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 sail | conj |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 thought | mark |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 thought | aux |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 bigger | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | the voyage | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sail | could | ships | all way | the Earth | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around earth=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | past | the Earth | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past · perfect | people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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.
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