Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 4
And some economists really do argue that home machines like washers freed more time than the internet, while others disagree.
Who acts: economists, home machines, others · What happens: argue, free, disagree · 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 (economists, home machines, others), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 argue | cc |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 economists | det |
| 3 | economists | economist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 argue | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 argue | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 argue | aux |
| 6 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 freed | mark |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 machines | compound |
| 9 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 freed | nsubj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 washers | case |
| 11 | washers | washer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 machines | nmod |
| 12 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 argue | ccomp |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 freed | obj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 internet | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 internet | det |
| 17 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 freed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 disagree | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 disagree | mark |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 disagree | nsubj |
| 21 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 freed | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 argue | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present · do-support | some economists | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | free | past | home machines like washers | time | than the internet | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||
| 3 | disagree | present | others | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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 ×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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