Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 17

In 1854 the doctor John Snow mapped cholera cases in a London street and showed they gathered round one water pump; after the «Great Stink» of the Thames in 1858, London built big new sewers.

Who acts: doctor, people, London · What happens: map, show, gather, build · To what, where: cholera cases, 1854, one water pump, big new sewers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (doctor, people, London), 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	_	2 1854	case
2	1854	1854	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 mapped	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mapped	nsubj
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Snow	compound
6	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doctor	appos
7	mapped	map	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 built	parataxis
8	cholera	cholera	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cases	compound
9	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mapped	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 street	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 street	det
12	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 street	compound
13	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cases	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 showed	cc
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mapped	conj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gathered	nsubj
17	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 showed	ccomp
18	round	round	ADV	_	17 gathered	advmod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pump	nummod
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pump	compound
21	pump	pump	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gathered	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 built	punct
23	after	after	ADP	_	27 Stink	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Stink	det
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 Stink	punct
26	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Stink	amod
27	Stink	stink	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 built	obl
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 Stink	punct
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Thames	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Thames	det
31	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Stink	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 1858	case
33	1858	1858	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 Stink	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 built	punct
35	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 built	nsubj
36	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sewers	amod
38	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sewers	amod
39	sewers	sewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 built	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 built	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	map	past	the doctor	cholera cases	1854		in a London street	tree rules
2	show	past	the doctor not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gather	past	people	one water pump			round property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	build	past	London	big new sewers		after the Great Stink of the Thames in 1858		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sewer=Product

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:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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