Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 5
Columbus really did carry a compass, Queen Victoria really did ride on trains, and Abraham Lincoln and Taras Shevchenko really did sit for photographs.
Who acts: Columbus, Queen, Abraham · What happens: carry, ride, sit · To what, where: compass, trains
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 (Columbus, Queen, Abraham), 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 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 carry | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 compass | det |
| 6 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ride | punct |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ride | nsubj |
| 9 | Victoria | Victoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Queen | flat |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 ride | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ride | aux |
| 12 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 carry | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 trains | case |
| 14 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ride | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sit | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sit | cc |
| 17 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sit | nsubj |
| 18 | Lincoln | Lincoln | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Abraham | flat |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Taras | cc |
| 20 | Taras | Taras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Abraham | conj |
| 21 | Shevchenko | Shevchenko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Taras | flat |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 24 sit | advmod |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sit | aux |
| 24 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 carry | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 photographs | case |
| 26 | photographs | photograph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sit | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · do-support | Columbus | a compass | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | past · do-support | Queen | trains | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sit | past · do-support | Abraham and Taras | for photographs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/5/