Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news, sentence 0
Ideas travel like a football passed down a long line of players: the digits you write in maths came from India, were passed on by scholars writing in Arabic, and reached Europe through a merchant's son from Pisa, Fibonacci, in 1202.
Who acts: Ideas, football, you, digits, scholars · What happens: travel, pass down, write, come, pass on, reach · To what, where: long line, digits, maths, India, Arabic, Europe
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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 (Ideas, football, you, digits), 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 | Ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travel | nsubj |
| 2 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 football | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 football | det |
| 5 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travel | obl |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 football | acl |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 passed | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 line | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 line | amod |
| 10 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 players | case |
| 12 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 line | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 digits | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 digits | det |
| 15 | digits | digit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | nsubj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 write | nsubj |
| 17 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 digits | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 maths | case |
| 19 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 write | obl |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travel | parataxis |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 India | case |
| 22 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 passed | punct |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 passed | aux:pass |
| 25 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 came | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 passed | compound:prt |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 scholars | case |
| 28 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 passed | obl:agent |
| 29 | writing | write | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 scholars | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Arabic | case |
| 31 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 writing | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 reached | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 reached | cc |
| 34 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 35 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 reached | obj |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 40 son | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 merchant | det |
| 38 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 son | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 merchant | case |
| 40 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reached | obl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 Pisa | case |
| 42 | Pisa | Pisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 son | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Fibonacci | punct |
| 44 | Fibonacci | Fibonacci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 son | appos |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 1202 | punct |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 1202 | case |
| 47 | 1202 | 1202 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 reached | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | 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 | travel | present | Ideas | like a football | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass down | participle | a football not said here | a long line of players | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | write | present | you | the digits not said here | maths | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent digit=Theme in math=Destination | |||
| 4 | come | past | the digits | India | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from india=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | pass on | past · passive | scholars | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | write | gerund | scholars not said here | Arabic | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | reach | past | the digits not said here | Europe | 1202 | through a merchant's son from Pisa | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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): 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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