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Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 15

Chess travelled to Persia, the Arab world and Europe and changed into the game we play today; the chaturanga elephant, standing next to the horse, became today's bishop.

Who acts: Chess, we, chaturanga elephant · What happens: travel, change, play, stand, become · To what, where: Persia, game, bishop

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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 (Chess, we, chaturanga elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjcaseoblpunctdetamodconjccconjccconjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclobl:unmarkedpunctdetcompoundnsubjpunctacladvmodcasedetoblpunctconjnmod:posscasexcomppunctrootChessNOUNtravelledVERBtoADPPersiaPROPN,PUNCTtheDETArabADJworldNOUNandCCONJEuropePROPNandCCONJchangedVERBintoADPtheDETgameNOUNwePRONplayVERBtodayNOUN;PUNCTtheDETchaturangaNOUNelephantNOUN,PUNCTstandingVERBnextADVtoADPtheDEThorseNOUN,PUNCTbecameVERBtodayNOUN'sPARTbishopNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ChesschessNOUNNumber=Sing2 travellednsubj
2travelledtravelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_4 Persiacase
4PersiaPersiaPROPNNumber=Sing2 travelledobl
5,,PUNCT_8 worldpunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 worlddet
7ArabArabADJDegree=Pos8 worldamod
8worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing4 Persiaconj
9andandCCONJ_10 Europecc
10EuropeEuropePROPNNumber=Sing8 worldconj
11andandCCONJ_12 changedcc
12changedchangeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 travelledconj
13intointoADP_15 gamecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 gamedet
15gamegameNOUNNumber=Sing12 changedobl
16wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs17 playnsubj
17playplayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 gameacl:relcl
18todaytodayNOUNNumber=Sing17 playobl:unmarked
19;;PUNCT_22 elephantpunct
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 elephantdet
21chaturangachaturangaNOUNNumber=Sing22 elephantcompound
22elephantelephantNOUNNumber=Sing30 becamensubj
23,,PUNCT_24 standingpunct
24standingstandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 elephantacl
25nextnextADV_24 standingadvmod
26totoADP_28 horsecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 horsedet
28horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing24 standingobl
29,,PUNCT_30 becamepunct
30becamebecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 travelledconj
31todaytodayNOUNNumber=Sing33 bishopnmod:poss
32's'sPART_31 todaycase
33bishopbishopNOUNNumber=Sing30 becamexcomp
34..PUNCT_2 travelledpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1travelpastChessPersia and the Arab world and Europevn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to persia=Destination
2changepastChess not said hereinto the game resultvn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into game=Result
3playpresentwethe game not said heretodayvn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
4standgerundthe chaturanga elephant not said hereto the horse; next propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5becomepastthe chaturanga elephanttoday's bishopvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.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): R7-rel-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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