Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 1
Noah thinks the Americans just stopped having a king one day and everyone got the vote.
Who acts: Noah, Americans, everyone · What happens: think, stop, have, get · To what, where: king, vote · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» 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 (Noah, Americans, everyone), 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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Americans | det |
| 4 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 stopped | advmod |
| 6 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stopped | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 having | obj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 having | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stopped | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vote | det |
| 16 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Noah | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stop | past | the Americans | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the Americans not said here | a king | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||
| 4 | get | past | everyone | the vote | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus |
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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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