Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 11
Tea reached Europe in the early 1600s, so no Viking, Roman or medieval knight ever drank a cup of tea.
Who acts: Tea, Viking · What happens: reach, drink · To what, where: Europe, early 1600s, cup
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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 (Tea, Viking), 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 | Tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1600s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1600s | det |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 1600s | amod |
| 7 | 1600s | 1600 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 2 reached | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drank | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 drank | advmod |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 Viking | det |
| 11 | Viking | viking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drank | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Roman | punct |
| 13 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Viking | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 knight | cc |
| 15 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knight | amod |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Viking | conj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 drank | advmod |
| 18 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cup | det |
| 20 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drank | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tea | case |
| 22 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cup | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Tea | Europe | the early 1600s | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme | |||
| 2 | drink | past | no Viking or medieval knight | a cup of tea | ever | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=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:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:11.
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): 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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