Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 21

Karl Benz built a motor car in 1886, the Wright brothers flew in 1903, and 66 years later people walked on the Moon.

Who acts: Karl, Wright brothers, people · What happens: build, fly, walk · To what, where: motor car, 1886, 1903, Moon

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 (Karl, Wright brothers, people), 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	Karl	Karl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 built	nsubj
2	Benz	Benz	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Karl	flat
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
5	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 car	compound
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1886	case
8	1886	1886	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 built	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flew	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brothers	det
11	Wright	Wright	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 brothers	compound
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flew	nsubj
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 1903	case
15	1903	1903	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 flew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 walked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 walked	cc
18	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 later	obl:unmarked
20	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 walked	advmod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 walked	nsubj
22	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flew	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 Moon	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Moon	det
25	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 walked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past	Karl	a motor car	1886		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Product
2	fly	past	the Wright brothers		1903		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1903=Location
3	walk	past	people		the Moon	late property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Trajectory

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:21.

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): 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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