Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 3
The Aztecs made little wheeled toy animals, so they knew the idea, but with no horses or oxen to pull carts and a city built on a lake, canoes worked better.
Who acts: Aztecs, canoes · What happens: make, wheel, know, pull, build, work · To what, where: little wheeled toy animals, idea, carts, city, lake
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 (Aztecs, canoes), 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 | 2 Aztecs | det |
| 2 | Aztecs | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animals | amod |
| 5 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 animals | amod |
| 6 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 animals | compound |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 knew | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 idea | det |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 worked | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 worked | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 horses | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 horses | det |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 worked | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 oxen | cc |
| 20 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 horses | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pull | mark |
| 22 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 horses | acl |
| 23 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pull | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 city | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carts | conj |
| 27 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 city | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 lake | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lake | det |
| 30 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 built | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 horses | punct |
| 32 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 worked | nsubj |
| 33 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 34 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 worked | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | 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 | make | past | the Aztecs | little wheeled toy animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Product | ||||
| 2 | wheel | participle | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | Aztecs = aztec | the idea | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pull | to-infinitive | canoes not said here | carts and a city | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme | ||||
| 5 | build | participle | a city not said here | a lake | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on lake=Source | ||||
| 6 | work | past | canoes | with no horses or oxen; well property | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with horse=Co-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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:3.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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