Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 6
Food is a great clue: potatoes, tomatoes, maize and chocolate came from the Americas, so a Roman or a Viking eating them is wrong, and tea only reached Europe in the 1600s.
Who acts: Food, potatoes, Viking, tea · What happens: be, come, eat, reach · To what, where: great clue, Americas, maize, Europe, 1600s
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 (Food, potatoes, Viking, tea), 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 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clue | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clue | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 clue | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clue | amod |
| 5 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reached | parataxis |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 potatoes | punct |
| 7 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tomatoes | punct |
| 9 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 potatoes | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 maize | punct |
| 11 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 chocolate | cc |
| 13 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maize | conj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clue | parataxis |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Americas | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Americas | det |
| 17 | Americas | Americas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Roman | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 Roman | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Roman | det |
| 21 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 potatoes | parataxis |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 wrong | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Viking | det |
| 24 | Viking | viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Roman | conj |
| 25 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Viking | acl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eating | obj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 wrong | cop |
| 28 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Roman | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reached | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tea | cc |
| 31 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reached | nsubj |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 reached | advmod |
| 33 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 reached | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 1600s | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 1600s | det |
| 37 | 1600s | 1600 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 33 reached | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clue | 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 | present | Food | a great clue | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | potatoes and tomatoes | the Americas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from americas=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | a Viking not said here | maize | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | potatoes and tomatoes not said here | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | tea | Europe | the 1600s | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme |
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:6.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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