The Industrial Revolution, sentence 7
Steam engines burned coal to boil water, and the steam pushed pistons that powered factories, trains and ships.
Who acts: Steam engines, steam, pistons · What happens: burn, boil, push, power · To what, where: coal, water, pistons, factories
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» 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 (Steam engines, steam, pistons), 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 | Steam | steam | NOUN | _ | 2 engines | compound |
| 2 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burned | nsubj |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 boil | mark |
| 6 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 burned | advcl |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boil | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 powered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pushed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 steam | det |
| 11 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pushed | nsubj |
| 12 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burned | conj |
| 13 | pistons | piston | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pushed | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 powered | nsubj |
| 15 | powered | power | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pistons | acl:relcl |
| 16 | factories | factory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 powered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trains | punct |
| 18 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 factories | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ships | cc |
| 20 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 factories | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | Steam engines | coal | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | boil | to-infinitive | Steam engines not said here | water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | push | past | the steam | pistons | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piston=Theme | ||||
| 4 | power | past | pistons | factories and trains and ships | tree rules |
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:030-the-industrial-revolution.lesson:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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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