The age of science, sentence 14
Smallpox, which once killed millions, was wiped out completely in 1980 thanks to vaccines.
Who acts: Smallpox · What happens: kill, wipe out · To what, where: millions, Smallpox, 1980
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 (Smallpox), 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 | Smallpox | smallpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wiped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 millions | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 killed | advmod |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Smallpox | acl:relcl |
| 6 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Smallpox | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wiped | aux:pass |
| 9 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 wiped | compound:prt |
| 11 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 9 wiped | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1980 | case |
| 13 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 wiped | obl |
| 14 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wiped | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 vaccines | case |
| 16 | vaccines | vaccine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thanks | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wiped | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Smallpox | millions | once property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme | |||
| 2 | wipe out | past · passive | Smallpox | 1980 | thanks to vaccines obl; completely property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in 1980=Trajectory |
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:14.
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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