Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 22

Bell patented the telephone in 1876, though others such as Antonio Meucci worked on similar ideas and credit is argued; radio spread in the 1920s and TV from the 1950s.

Who acts: Bell, others, radio · What happens: patent, work, argue, spread · To what, where: telephone, 1876, credit, 1920s

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 (Bell, others, radio), 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	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 patented	nsubj
2	patented	patent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 telephone	det
4	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 patented	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1876	case
6	1876	1876	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 patented	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 worked	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 worked	mark
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 worked	nsubj
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 Antonio	case
11	as	as	ADP	_	10 such	fixed
12	Antonio	Antonio	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 others	nmod
13	Meucci	Meucci	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Antonio	flat
14	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 patented	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 ideas	case
16	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ideas	amod
17	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 worked	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 argued	cc
19	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 argued	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 argued	aux:pass
21	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 worked	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 spread	punct
23	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spread	nsubj
24	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 worked	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 1920s	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 1920s	det
27	1920s	1920s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	24 spread	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 TV	cc
29	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 1920s	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 1950s	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 1950s	det
32	1950s	1950s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	27 1920s	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 patented	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	patent	past	Bell	the telephone	1876		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephone=Theme
2	work	past	others such Antonio			on similar ideas	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on idea=Theme
3	argue speech: disagree	present · passive		credit			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
4	spread		radio		the 1920s from the 1950s and TV		tree rules

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:22.

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 ×3. 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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