Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 15

Queen Victoria first rode on a train in 1842 and saw Bell show her the telephone in 1878, but television came only in the 1920s, long after she died in 1901.

Who acts: Queen, Bell, television · What happens: ride, see, show, come, die · To what, where: train, telephone, Queen, 1878, 1920s

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 (Queen, Bell, television), 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	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
2	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Queen	flat
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 rode	advmod
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 train	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 train	det
7	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1842	case
9	1842	1842	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 rode	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
12	Bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	nsubj
13	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 saw	xcomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 show	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 telephone	det
16	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 1878	case
18	1878	1878	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 show	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
21	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 1920s	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 1920s	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 1920s	det
26	1920s	1920s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	22 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 long	punct
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 died	advmod
29	after	after	SCONJ	_	31 died	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 died	nsubj
31	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 1901	case
33	1901	1901	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 died	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Queen			a train	in 1842; first property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	Queen not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	show	infinitive	Bell	the telephone	Queen	1878		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient telephone=Topic
4	come	past	television			the 1920s		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1920s=Location
5	die	past	television				in 1901; long property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1901=Attribute

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:15.

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 ×2. 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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