Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 3
What really happened: Fleming noticed in 1928 that a mould killed germs, but it took Florey, Chain and many others until the 1940s to turn it into a medicine.
Who acts: Fleming, mould, it · What happens: happen, notice, kill, take, turn · To what, where: 1928, germs, Florey, other, medicine · 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 (Fleming, mould, it), 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 | 6 noticed | ccomp |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| 5 | Fleming | Fleming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | nsubj |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1928 | case |
| 8 | 1928 | 1928 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 noticed | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 killed | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mould | det |
| 11 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 noticed | ccomp |
| 13 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 killed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 noticed | conj |
| 18 | Florey | Florey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Chain | punct |
| 20 | Chain | Chain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Florey | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 others | cc |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 others | amod |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Chain | conj |
| 24 | until | until | ADP | _ | 26 1940s | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 1940s | det |
| 26 | 1940s | 1940 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 17 took | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 turn | mark |
| 28 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 took | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 turn | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 medicine | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 medicine | det |
| 32 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turn | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | notice | past | Fleming | 1928 | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | a mould | germs | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | it | Florey and Chain and many others | until the 1940s | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument florey=Destination | |||
| 5 | turn | to-infinitive | other | a medicine | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into medicine=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: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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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