Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 22

Kings and cities set standard weights and measures so buyers were not cheated; France created the metric system in the 1790s, and most of the world now uses it.

Who acts: Kings, France, most · What happens: set, not cheat, create, use · To what, where: standard weights, buyers, metric system, 1790s, system

This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» 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 (Kings, France, most), 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	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cities	cc
3	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Kings	conj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weights	amod
6	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 measures	cc
8	measures	measure	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 weights	conj
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 cheated	mark
10	buyers	buyer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cheated	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cheated	aux:pass
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cheated	advmod
13	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 set	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cheated	punct
15	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 created	nsubj
16	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 system	det
18	metric	metric	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 system	compound
19	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 created	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 1790s	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 1790s	det
22	1790s	1790	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	16 created	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 uses	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 uses	cc
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 uses	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 most	nmod
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 uses	advmod
30	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 uses	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set	past	Kings and cities	standard weights and measures			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient weight=Result
2	not cheat	past · passive		buyers			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
3	create	past	France	the metric system	the 1790s		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Result
4	use	present	most of the world	system		now	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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