The age of science, sentence 11
William Harvey showed in 1628 that the heart pumps blood around the body in a circle.
Who acts: William, heart · What happens: show, pump · To what, where: 1628, blood, body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The age of science» 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 (William, heart), 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 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | Harvey | Harvey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 William | flat |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1628 | case |
| 5 | 1628 | 1628 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 showed | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 pumps | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pumps | nsubj |
| 9 | pumps | pump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | ccomp |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pumps | obj |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pumps | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 circle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 circle | det |
| 16 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pumps | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | William | 1628 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pump | present | the heart | blood | the body | in a circle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme around body=Destination |
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:029-the-age-of-science.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. 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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