Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 1
History is full of chains like a line of dominoes: push the first one, and the last one falls far away, years or even centuries later.
Who acts: History, dominoes, last one · What happens: be, push, fall · To what, where: first one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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 (History, dominoes, last one), 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 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 chains | case |
| 5 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 line | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 line | det |
| 8 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chains | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dominoes | case |
| 10 | dominoes | domino | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 line | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 push | punct |
| 12 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dominoes | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 push | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 falls | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 falls | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 falls | nsubj |
| 21 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | conj |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 falls | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 years | punct |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 later | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 centuries | cc |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 centuries | advmod |
| 28 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 years | conj |
| 29 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 falls | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | History | of chains like a line of dominoes; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | push | infinitive | dominoes not said here | the first one | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | present | the last one | away, late property | vn occur-48.3 «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:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:1.
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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