Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 16
Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896; Marie Curie named it, studied it, and with Pierre Curie discovered polonium and radium; she won two Nobel Prizes.
Who acts: Henri, Marie · What happens: discover, name, study, win · To what, where: radioactivity, 1896, polonium, two Nobel Prizes
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 (Henri, Marie), 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 | Henri | Henri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 2 | Becquerel | Becquerel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Henri | flat |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | radioactivity | radioactivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1896 | case |
| 6 | 1896 | 1896 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 discovered | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 named | punct |
| 8 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 named | nsubj |
| 9 | Curie | Curie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Marie | flat |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 named | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 studied | punct |
| 13 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 named | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 studied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 discovered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 discovered | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Curie | case |
| 18 | Pierre | Pierre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Curie | flat |
| 19 | Curie | Curie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 discovered | obl |
| 20 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | conj |
| 21 | polonium | polonium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 discovered | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 radium | cc |
| 23 | radium | radium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 polonium | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 won | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 won | nsubj |
| 26 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | parataxis |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 Prizes | nummod |
| 28 | Nobel | Nobel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Prizes | compound |
| 29 | Prizes | prize | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 won | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Henri | radioactivity | 1896 | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radioactivity=Topic | |||
| 2 | name | past | Marie | radioactivity | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | study | past | Marie not said here | radioactivity | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | discover | past | Henri not said here | polonium and radium | with Pierre Curie | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polonium=Topic | |||
| 5 | win | past | Marie | two Nobel Prizes | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
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:16.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
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