Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 8

The biggest change is the saddest to remember: around 1800 about four in ten children died before age five, and today about four in a hundred do.

Who acts: biggest change · What happens: be, remember, die, do · To what, where: ten children

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 (biggest change), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 change	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 change	amod
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saddest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saddest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddest	det
6	saddest	sad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 remember	mark
8	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saddest	acl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 saddest	punct
10	around	around	ADP	_	11 1800	case
11	1800	1800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 saddest	parataxis
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 four	advmod
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 1800	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 children	case
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 children	nummod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 1800	nmod
17	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 children	acl
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 age	case
19	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 died	obl
20	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 age	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 today	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 today	cc
23	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 1800	parataxis
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 four	advmod
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 today	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hundred	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hundred	det
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 do	nummod
29	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 died	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saddest	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the biggest change			sad property	tree rules
2	remember	to-infinitive					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	die	participle		ten children not said here	before age		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	do	present					vn act-114-1 «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:8.

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 ×3, R7-rel-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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