Computers and the internet, sentence 15

Pong, from 1972, was one of the first popular video games, and later came history games like Civilization and Europa Universalis, which simplify and sometimes change real history.

Who acts: Pong, history games · What happens: be, come, simplify, change · To what, where: one, 1972, history games, real history

This is a sentence of the lesson «Computers and the internet» 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 (Pong, history games), 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	Pong	Pong	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 1972	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 1972	case
4	1972	1972	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 one	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pong	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 games	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 games	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 games	amod
11	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 games	amod
12	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 games	compound
13	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 came	advmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	conj
18	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 games	compound
19	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obj
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 Civilization	case
21	Civilization	civilization	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 games	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Europa	cc
23	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Civilization	conj
24	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Europa	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 simplify	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 simplify	nsubj
27	simplify	simplify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 games	acl:relcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 change	cc
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 change	advmod
30	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 simplify	conj
31	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 history	amod
32	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 change	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Pong	one	1972	of the first popular video games	tree rules
2	come	past	Pong not said here	history games		like Civilization and Europa; late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location game=Theme
3	simplify	present	history games				tree rules
4	change	present	history games not said here	real history		sometimes property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient

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:036-computers-and-the-internet.lesson:15.

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, 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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