Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today, sentence 15
In the USA only about 2 people in 100 work on farms, but with machines they grow food for many millions of city people.
Who acts: 2 people, people · What happens: work, grow · To what, where: food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» 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 (2 people, people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 USA | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 USA | det |
| 3 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 work | obl |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 2 | advmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 2 | advmod |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 people | nummod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 work | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 100 | case |
| 9 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 people | nmod |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 farms | case |
| 12 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 work | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grow | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 grow | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 machines | case |
| 16 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grow | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grow | nsubj |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 work | conj |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grow | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 millions | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 millions | amod |
| 22 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grow | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 people | compound |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 millions | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 USA | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | 2 people in 100 | on farms; in the USA | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in usa=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | people | food | with machines; for many millions of city people | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Material for million=Beneficiary |
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:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:15.
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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