Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 12

Many inventors made electric light bulbs before Edison, including Joseph Swan in England; Edison's team at Menlo Park made a long-lasting, practical bulb and a whole system to power it.

Who acts: Many inventors, team · What happens: make, include, power · To what, where: electric light bulbs, England, lasting practical bulb, team

This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths 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 (Many inventors, team), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 inventors	amod
2	inventors	inventor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bulbs	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bulbs	compound
6	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 Edison	case
8	Edison	Edison	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Joseph	punct
10	including	include	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 Joseph	case
11	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Edison	conj
12	Swan	Swan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Joseph	flat
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 England	case
14	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bulbs	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 team	punct
16	Edison	Edison	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 team	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Edison	case
18	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 Park	case
20	Menlo	Menlo	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Park	compound
21	Park	Park	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 team	nmod
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bulb	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lasting	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 long	punct
26	lasting	lasting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bulb	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lasting	punct
28	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bulb	amod
29	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 system	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 system	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 system	amod
33	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bulb	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 power	mark
35	power	power	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 system	acl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 power	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	Many inventors	electric light bulbs	England	before Edison and Joseph	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bulb=Product
2	include	gerund					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	Edison's team at Menlo Park	a lasting practical bulb and a whole system			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bulb=Product
4	power	to-infinitive	Edison's team at Menlo Park not said here	team			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:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:12.

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. 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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