How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 2
Bruv, real people waited about 290,000 years.» (Bruv is London slang for brother or mate.)
Who acts: real people, Bruv · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: London slang · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (real people, Bruv), 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waited | nsubj |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 290,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 290,000 | 290,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waited | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 slang | punct |
| 12 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 slang | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 slang | cop |
| 14 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 slang | compound |
| 15 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slang | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 mate | cc |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brother | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 slang | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 slang | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | real people | year | Bruv vocative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Bruv | London slang | for brother or mate | 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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:2.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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