The age of science, sentence 13
In 1796 Edward Jenner protected a boy from smallpox by giving him the much milder cowpox.
Who acts: Edward Jenner · What happens: protect, give · To what, where: boy, 1796, milder cowpox
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 (Edward Jenner), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1796 | case |
| 2 | 1796 | 1796 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 protected | obl |
| 3 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jenner | compound |
| 4 | Jenner | Jenner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 protected | nsubj |
| 5 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 protected | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 smallpox | case |
| 9 | smallpox | smallpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 protected | obl |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 giving | mark |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 protected | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 giving | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cowpox | det |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 milder | advmod |
| 15 | milder | mild | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 cowpox | amod |
| 16 | cowpox | cowpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 protected | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | past | Edward Jenner | a boy | 1796 | from smallpox | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent boy=Beneficiary from smallpox=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | gerund | Edward Jenner not said here | the milder cowpox | boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cowpox=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:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:13.
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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