Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 8
Later sailors learned that lemons and limes prevent scurvy, because they contain vitamin C.
Who acts: sailors, lemons · What happens: learn, prevent, contain · To what, where: scurvy, vitamin C. · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sailors, lemons), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 learned | advmod |
| 2 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 prevent | mark |
| 5 | lemons | lemon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prevent | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 limes | cc |
| 7 | limes | lime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lemons | conj |
| 8 | prevent | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 learned | ccomp |
| 9 | scurvy | scurvy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prevent | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 contain | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 contain | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 contain | nsubj |
| 13 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 prevent | advcl |
| 14 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 C. | compound |
| 15 | C. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contain | obj |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | sailors | late property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | prevent | present | lemons and limes | scurvy | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer scurvy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | contain | present | lemons = lemon | vitamin C. | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot c.=Theme |
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:8.
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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