The age of science, sentence 16
Marie Curie, born in Poland and working in France, discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium and was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, in two different sciences, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911.
Who acts: Marie · What happens: bear, work, discover, be, win · To what, where: Marie, Poland, radioactive elements, first person, two Nobel Prizes, two different sciences
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 (Marie), 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 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 discovered | nsubj |
| 2 | Curie | Curie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marie | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Marie | punct |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Marie | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Poland | case |
| 6 | Poland | Poland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 working | cc |
| 8 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 born | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 France | case |
| 10 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 working | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 France | punct |
| 12 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 elements | det |
| 14 | radioactive | radioactive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 elements | amod |
| 15 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 discovered | obj |
| 16 | polonium | polonium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 elements | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 radium | cc |
| 18 | radium | radium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 polonium | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 person | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 person | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 person | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 person | amod |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discovered | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 win | mark |
| 25 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 person | acl |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 Prizes | nummod |
| 27 | Nobel | Nobel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Prizes | compound |
| 28 | Prizes | prize | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 win | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sciences | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 sciences | case |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 sciences | nummod |
| 32 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sciences | amod |
| 33 | sciences | science | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 win | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 physics | punct |
| 35 | physics | physic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 sciences | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 1903 | case |
| 37 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 physics | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 chemistry | cc |
| 39 | chemistry | chemistry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sciences | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 1911 | case |
| 41 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 chemistry | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | Marie not said here | Poland | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | in France | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in france=Theme | |||||
| 3 | discover | past | Marie | the radioactive elements | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Marie not said here | the first person | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | win | to-infinitive | Marie not said here | two Nobel Prizes | two different sciences and physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
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:16.
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 ×4, R8-pos-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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