The First World War, sentence 11
The war brought new machines such as tanks, aeroplanes, submarines and machine guns, which made it far deadlier than earlier wars.
Who acts: war, machine guns · What happens: bring, make · To what, where: new machines
This is a sentence of the lesson «The First World War» 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 (war, machine guns), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 war | det |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 machines | amod |
| 5 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 tanks | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 machines | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 aeroplanes | punct |
| 10 | aeroplanes | aeroplane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tanks | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 submarines | punct |
| 12 | submarines | submarine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tanks | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 guns | cc |
| 14 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guns | compound |
| 15 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tanks | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 guns | acl:relcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 deadlier | nsubj |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 deadlier | advmod |
| 21 | deadlier | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 made | xcomp |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 wars | case |
| 23 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 wars | amod |
| 24 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 deadlier | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the war | new machines | such tanks and aeroplanes and submarines and machine guns | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent machine=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | machine guns | deadly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:033-the-first-world-war.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): R7-rel-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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