Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 19
Until trains in the 1800s, nothing on land went faster than a horse.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: go
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 (nothing), 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 | Until | until | ADP | _ | 2 trains | case |
| 2 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1800s | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 1800s | det |
| 5 | 1800s | 1800s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 trains | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 went | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nothing | nmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 went | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | nothing | until trains in the 1800s | than a horse; fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:19.
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. 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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