Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 22
Eyeglasses were invented in Italy around 1280 to 1290, so people over 40 could keep reading and sewing.
Who acts: people · What happens: invent, keep, read, sew · To what, where: Eyeglasses, Italy
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 (people), 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 | Eyeglasses | eyeglass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invented | aux:pass |
| 3 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Italy | case |
| 5 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invented | obl |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 1280 | case |
| 7 | 1280 | 1280 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 invented | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 1290 | case |
| 9 | 1290 | 1290 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1280 | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 keep | advmod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 40 | case |
| 14 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 people | nmod |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 invented | conj |
| 17 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sewing | cc |
| 19 | sewing | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 reading | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invented | 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 | invent | past · passive | Eyeglasses | Italy | around 1280 to 1290 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||
| 2 | keep | could | people over 40 | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | read | gerund | people over 40 not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sew | gerund | people over 40 not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:22.
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): no change. 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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