Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 4
Indian mathematicians treated zero as a real number, and the digits 0 to 9 on your calculator were invented in India.
What happens: treat, invent · To what, where: Indian mathematicians, India
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: 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 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mathematicians | amod |
| 2 | mathematicians | mathematician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | zero | zero | ADV | _ | 3 treated | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 number | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 number | amod |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 treated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 digits | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 digits | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 digits | det |
| 12 | digits | digit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mathematicians | conj |
| 13 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 digits | flat |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 9 | case |
| 15 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 0 | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 calculator | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 calculator | nmod:poss |
| 18 | calculator | calculator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 0 | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 invented | aux:pass |
| 20 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 treated | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 India | case |
| 22 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 invented | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past · passive | Indian mathematicians and the digits | as a real number; zero property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as number=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | invent | past · passive | India | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V» |
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.
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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): R5-strong ×3. 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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