Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 7
People reached Australia at least 50,000 years ago across open sea.
Who acts: People · What happens: reach · To what, where: Australia, open sea
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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 least | case |
| 5 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 50,000 | nmod |
| 6 | 50,000 | 50000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 reached | advmod |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sea | amod |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | 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 | reach | past | People | Australia | open sea | ago property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent australia=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:7.
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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