British and American words, sentence 11

"Soccer" was made up by students in England in the 1800s, from "association football"; Americans kept it to tell it apart from American football.

Who acts: students, Americans, soccer · What happens: make up, keep, tell · To what, where: Soccer, 1800s, American football · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «British and American words» of the language 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 (students, Americans, soccer), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Soccer	punct
2	Soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Soccer	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 students	case
8	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl:agent
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 England	case
10	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 students	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 1800s	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 1800s	det
13	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	5 made	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 football	punct
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 football	case
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 football	punct
17	association	association	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 football	compound
18	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 football	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 kept	punct
21	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 kept	nsubj
22	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kept	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tell	mark
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 kept	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	obj
27	apart	apart	ADV	_	25 tell	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 football	case
29	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 football	amod
30	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive	students in England	Soccer		the 1800s	from association football	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Pivot
2	keep	past	Americans	soccer				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	soccer not said here		soccer	American football	apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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:language:021-british-and-american-words.lesson:11.

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): no change. 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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