Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 3
What really happened: it was damaged by fire in 48 BCE and probably faded slowly over centuries as money and scholars left.
Who acts: fire, scholars · What happens: happen, damage, fade, leave · To what, where: knowledge, 48
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 (fire, scholars), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 damaged | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 damaged | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 damaged | aux:pass |
| 7 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 damaged | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 48 | case |
| 11 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 damaged | obl |
| 12 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 48 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 faded | cc |
| 14 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 15 faded | advmod |
| 15 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 damaged | conj |
| 16 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 15 faded | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 centuries | case |
| 18 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 faded | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 money | case |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 faded | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 left | cc |
| 22 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 left | nsubj |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 damaged | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 damaged | 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 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | damage | past · passive | fire | knowledge | 48 BCE | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | fade | past | fire not said here | century | as money; probably, slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | leave | past | scholars | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.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, R6-punct-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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