Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 23
The safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain came in the 1880s and let many women travel alone for the first time.
Who acts: safety bicycle, many women · What happens: come, let, travel · To what, where: 1880s, many women
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 (safety bicycle, many women), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bicycle | det |
| 2 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bicycle | compound |
| 3 | bicycle | bicycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wheels | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 wheels | nummod |
| 6 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wheels | amod |
| 7 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bicycle | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chain | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chain | det |
| 10 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wheels | conj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1880s | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 1880s | det |
| 14 | 1880s | 1880 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | conj |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 women | amod |
| 18 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 let | obj |
| 19 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 19 travel | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 travel | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain | the 1880s | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1880=Location | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain not said here | many women | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel | infinitive | many women not said here | time | alone property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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:23.
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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