Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 2
Maya's friend says the Library of Alexandria burned in one night and all ancient knowledge was lost.
Who acts: friend, Library · What happens: say, burn, lose · To what, where: ancient knowledge · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friend, Library), 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 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maya | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Library | det |
| 6 | Library | Library | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 burned | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Alexandria | case |
| 8 | Alexandria | Alexandria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Library | nmod |
| 9 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 night | nummod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burned | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lost | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 knowledge | det |
| 15 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knowledge | amod |
| 16 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux:pass |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 burned | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Maya's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | burn | past | the Library of Alexandria | night | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | all ancient knowledge | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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