Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 1

Abby tells her gran it is «delulu», short for deluded, to say the washing machine changed more lives than the internet.

Who acts: Abby, gran, washing machine · What happens: tell, be, say, change · To what, where: gran, more lives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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 (Abby, gran, washing machine), 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	Abby	Abby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 gran	nmod:poss
4	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 short	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 short	cop
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 delulu	punct
8	delulu	delulu	X	Foreign=Yes	5 it	appos
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 delulu	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tells	ccomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 deluded	case
13	deluded	delude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 short	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tells	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 machine	det
18	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 machine	compound
19	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 changed	nsubj
20	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 lives	amod
22	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 changed	obj
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 internet	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 internet	det
25	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lives	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Abby	Abby's gran		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gran=Recipient
2	is	present	gran		for deluded; short property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Abby not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	change	past	the washing machine	more lives	than the internet	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:1.

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 ×2. 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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