Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 1
Lucía's friend goes further: «The Aztecs didn't even have the wheel, they weren't that smart.»
Who acts: friend, Aztecs · What happens: go, not have, not be · To what, where: wheel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 (friend, Aztecs), 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 | Lucía | Lucía | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lucía | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 goes | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Aztecs | det |
| 9 | Aztecs | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 have | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 goes | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wheel | det |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 smart | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 smart | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 smart | cop |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 smart | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | ADV | _ | 21 smart | advmod |
| 21 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 have | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Lucía's friend | far property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | past · do-support | the Aztecs | the wheel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | past | Aztecs = aztec | smart, that property | 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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:1.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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