Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 0
Mei's friend says the Silk Road was one long road like a motorway.
Who acts: friend, Silk Road · What happens: say, be · To what, where: one long road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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 (friend, Silk Road), 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 | Mei | Mei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mei | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Road | det |
| 6 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Road | compound |
| 7 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 road | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 road | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 road | nummod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | amod |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 motorway | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 motorway | det |
| 14 | motorway | motorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 road | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mei's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Silk Road | one long road | like a motorway | 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:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:0.
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): R8-pos-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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