How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 14
Homes got telephones during the 1900s and TV mostly from the 1950s; the World Wide Web was made in 1991, and most homes in rich countries got the internet around 2000.
Who acts: Homes, most homes · What happens: get, make · To what, where: telephones, World Wide Web, 1991, internet, 2000
This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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 (Homes, most homes), 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 | Homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | telephones | telephone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 4 | during | during | ADP | _ | 6 1900s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1900s | det |
| 6 | 1900s | 1900 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 2 got | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 TV | cc |
| 8 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 1900s | conj |
| 9 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 12 1950s | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 1950s | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 1950s | det |
| 12 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 1900s | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Web | det |
| 15 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Web | compound |
| 16 | Wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Web | amod |
| 17 | Web | web | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1991 | case |
| 21 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 made | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 got | cc |
| 24 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 homes | amod |
| 25 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 got | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 countries | case |
| 27 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 countries | amod |
| 28 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 homes | nmod |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 internet | det |
| 31 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 got | obj |
| 32 | around | around | ADP | _ | 33 2000 | case |
| 33 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 got | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Homes | telephones | during the 1900s and TV and the 1950s | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer telephone=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the World Wide Web | 1991 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | get | past | most homes in rich countries | the internet | 2000 | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer internet=Stimulus |
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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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