Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 0
Ryan moans about homework, so his teacher shows him a story from Sumer, about 4,000 years old, where a schoolboy gets punished for messy work and his dad has to sweeten the teacher.
Who acts: Ryan, teacher, dad · What happens: moan, show, punish, have, sweeten · To what, where: story, Ryan, Sumer, schoolboy, teacher
This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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 (Ryan, teacher, dad), 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 | Ryan | Ryan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 moans | nsubj |
| 2 | moans | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 homework | case |
| 4 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moans | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 shows | advmod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | nsubj |
| 9 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 moans | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shows | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shows | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Sumer | case |
| 14 | Sumer | Sumer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 story | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 old | punct |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 4,000 | advmod |
| 17 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 old | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 story | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 punished | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 punished | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 schoolboy | det |
| 23 | schoolboy | schoolboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 punished | nsubj |
| 24 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 punished | aux:pass |
| 25 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 story | acl:relcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 work | case |
| 27 | messy | messy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 work | amod |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 punished | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 has | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 dad | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 has | nsubj |
| 32 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 punished | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sweeten | mark |
| 34 | sweeten | sweeten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 has | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 teacher | det |
| 36 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sweeten | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 moans | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moan | present | Ryan | about homework | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about homework=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show | present | Ryan's teacher | a story | Ryan | Sumer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 3 | punish | present · passive | a schoolboy | for messy work | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | schoolboy's dad | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sweeten | to-infinitive | schoolboy's dad not said here | the teacher | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent teacher=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:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.lesson:0.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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