Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 20
Pocket watches appeared in Europe in the early 1500s and glasses for reading in Italy around 1290, so a knight of 1100 had neither.
Who acts: Pocket watches, knight · What happens: appear, have · To what, where: Europe
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 (Pocket watches, knight), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watches | compound | ||
| 2 | watches | watch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Europe | case |
| 5 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1500s | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 1500s | det |
| 8 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 1500s | amod |
| 9 | 1500s | 1500 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 appeared | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glasses | cc |
| 11 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appeared | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 reading | case |
| 13 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glasses | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Italy | case |
| 15 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reading | obl |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 1290 | case |
| 17 | 1290 | 1290 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 reading | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 had | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 knight | det |
| 21 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 1100 | case |
| 23 | 1100 | 1100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 knight | nmod |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | parataxis |
| 25 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 24 had | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Pocket watches | Europe | in the early 1500s | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europe=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | a knight of 1100 | neither property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:20.
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 ×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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