Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 7

Sophie in Bristol watches a Roman film: «Gurt lush, but why's the centurion wearing a wristwatch?» (in the West Country gurt means very and lush means lovely).

Who acts: Sophie, Roman film, centurion · What happens: watch, lush, wear, mean · To what, where: Roman film, wristwatch, Country gurt · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sophie, Roman film, centurion), 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	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 watches	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Bristol	case
3	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sophie	nmod
4	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 film	det
6	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 film	amod
7	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watches	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 lush	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	Typo=Yes	11 lush	punct
10	Gurt	Gurt	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lush	advmod
11	lush	lush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 film	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wearing	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 wearing	cc
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 wearing	advmod
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wearing	aux
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 centurion	det
17	centurion	centurion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wearing	nsubj
18	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 watches	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wristwatch	det
20	wristwatch	wristwatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wearing	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 wearing	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 wearing	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 gurt	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 gurt	det
26	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Country	compound
27	Country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gurt	compound
28	gurt	gurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	obl
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wearing	parataxis
30	very	very	ADV	_	33 means	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lush	cc
32	lush	lush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 very	conj
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 means	ccomp
34	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 means	xcomp
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 watches	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	present	Sophie in Bristol	a Roman film			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme
2	lush in a quote	infinitive	a Roman film not said here				tree rules
3	wear in a quote	present · progressive	the centurion	a wristwatch			tree rules
4	mean	present			the Country gurt		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lush	infinitive					tree rules
6	mean	present				lovely property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:7.

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. 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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