How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 5
Miss Okafor squeezes all human time into one school day from midnight to midnight: farming starts a bit before 11 at night, writing at about 11:35, printing in Europe under three minutes before midnight, and electric light at home in the very last minute.
Who acts: Miss, farming, starts · What happens: squeeze, start, write, print · To what, where: bit, 11:35, Europe
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 (Miss, farming, starts), 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 | Miss | miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | nsubj |
| 2 | Okafor | okafor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miss | flat |
| 3 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 time | det |
| 5 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 day | compound |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 midnight | case |
| 12 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 midnight | case |
| 14 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 midnight | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 starts | punct |
| 16 | farming | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 starts | nsubj |
| 17 | starts | start | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | appos |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bit | det |
| 19 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 starts | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 11 | case |
| 21 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 starts | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 11 | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 writing | punct |
| 25 | writing | write | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 starts | acl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 11:35 | case |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 11:35 | advmod |
| 28 | 11:35 | 11:35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 writing | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 printing | punct |
| 30 | printing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 writing | conj | |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Europe | case |
| 32 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 printing | obl |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 minutes | case |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 minutes | nummod |
| 35 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 printing | obl |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 37 midnight | case |
| 37 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 minutes | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 light | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 light | cc |
| 40 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 light | amod |
| 41 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 printing | conj |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 home | case |
| 43 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 light | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 minute | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 minute | det |
| 46 | very | very | ADV | _ | 47 last | advmod |
| 47 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 minute | amod |
| 48 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 light | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squeezes | 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 | squeeze | present | Miss | day; midnight; time | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | start | farming | a bit | before 11 at night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | write | gerund | starts not said here | 11:35 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | gerund | starts not said here | Europe | minute | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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