Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 21
Words can be anachronisms too: «OK» was first printed in America in 1839, so a knight or a Roman saying «OK» in a film is out of time.
Who acts: Words · What happens: be, print · To what, where: anachronisms, OK, America
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 (Words), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 anachronisms | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 anachronisms | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 anachronisms | cop |
| 4 | anachronisms | anachronism | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 anachronisms | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 OK | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 OK | punct |
| 8 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 printed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 OK | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 printed | aux:pass |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 printed | advmod |
| 12 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 anachronisms | parataxis | |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 America | case |
| 14 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 printed | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1839 | case |
| 16 | 1839 | 1839 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 printed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knight | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 knight | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knight | det |
| 20 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anachronisms | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 saying | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Roman | det |
| 23 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knight | conj |
| 24 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knight | conj |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 OK | punct |
| 26 | OK | ok | INTJ | _ | 24 saying | obj |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 OK | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 film | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 film | det |
| 30 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saying | obl |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 time | cop |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anachronisms | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 anachronisms | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | Words | anachronisms and a knight or saying and time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | past · passive | OK | America | in 1839; first property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in america=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Words not said here | out time | tree rules |
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:21.
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, R6-punct-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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