Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 13

The magnetic compass was used by Chinese sailors by about 1100 and by European sailors by about 1200, so Columbus did have one, but the telescope was made only in 1608.

Who acts: Chinese sailors, Columbus · What happens: use, have, make · To what, where: magnetic compass, one, telescope, 1608

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 (Chinese sailors, Columbus), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 compass	det
2	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 compass	amod
3	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sailors	case
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sailors	amod
8	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 used	obl:agent
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 1100	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 1100	advmod
11	1100	1100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 used	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sailors	cc
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 sailors	case
14	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sailors	amod
15	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sailors	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 1200	case
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 1200	advmod
18	1200	1200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 used	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 have	advmod
21	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 have	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	parataxis
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 have	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 telescope	det
28	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 made	aux:pass
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 used	conj
31	only	only	ADV	_	33 1608	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 1608	case
33	1608	1608	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 made	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive	Chinese sailors and European sailors	the magnetic compass		by 1100; by 1200	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	have	past · do-support	Columbus	one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	make	past · passive		the telescope	1608		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:13.

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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