Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe, sentence 13
Gas street lights first lit a London street in 1807, and electric street lights spread later in the 1800s.
Who acts: street lights, electric street lights · What happens: light, spread · To what, where: London street, 1807
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe» 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 (street lights, electric street lights), 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 | Gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 street | compound |
| 2 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lights | compound |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lit | nsubj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 lit | advmod |
| 5 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 street | det |
| 7 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 street | compound |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lit | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1807 | case |
| 10 | 1807 | 1807 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 lit | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spread | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spread | cc |
| 13 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lights | amod |
| 14 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lights | compound |
| 15 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spread | nsubj |
| 16 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lit | conj |
| 17 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 spread | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1800s | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 1800s | det |
| 20 | 1800s | 1800 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 17 later | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | street lights | a London street | 1807 | first property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Product | ||
| 2 | spread | past | electric street lights | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.lesson:13.
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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