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Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 17

In Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment, reported in 1752, the kite collected electric charge from storm clouds; he was not struck by lightning, which would very likely have killed him, and some historians doubt the experiment happened as told.

Who acts: kite, lightning, historians, experiment, Benjamin Franklin · What happens: report, collect, not strike, kill, doubt, happen · To what, where: kite experiment, 1752, electric charge, kite · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (kite, lightning, historians, experiment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

casecompoundnmod:posscasecompoundoblpunctaclcaseoblpunctdetnsubjamodobjcasecompoundoblpunctnsubjaux:passadvmodparataxiscaseoblpunctnsubjauxadvmodadvmodauxacl:relclobjpunctccdetnsubjconjdetnsubjccompmarkadvclpunctrootInADPBenjaminPROPNFranklinPROPN'sPARTkiteNOUNexperimentNOUN,PUNCTreportedVERBinADP1752NUM,PUNCTtheDETkiteNOUNcollectedVERBelectricADJchargeNOUNfromADPstormNOUNcloudsNOUN;PUNCThePRONwasAUXnotPARTstruckVERBbyADPlightningNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwouldAUXveryADVlikelyADVhaveAUXkilledVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJsomeDEThistoriansNOUNdoubtVERBtheDETexperimentNOUNhappenedVERBasSCONJtoldVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_6 experimentcase
2BenjaminBenjaminPROPNNumber=Sing3 Franklincompound
3FranklinFranklinPROPNNumber=Sing6 experimentnmod:poss
4's'sPART_3 Franklincase
5kitekiteNOUNNumber=Sing6 experimentcompound
6experimentexperimentNOUNNumber=Sing14 collectedobl
7,,PUNCT_6 experimentpunct
8reportedreportVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 experimentacl
9ininADP_10 1752case
1017521752NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card8 reportedobl
11,,PUNCT_13 kitepunct
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 kitedet
13kitekiteNOUNNumber=Sing14 collectednsubj
14collectedcollectVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15electricelectricADJDegree=Pos16 chargeamod
16chargechargeNOUNNumber=Sing14 collectedobj
17fromfromADP_19 cloudscase
18stormstormNOUNNumber=Sing19 cloudscompound
19cloudscloudNOUNNumber=Plur14 collectedobl
20;;PUNCT_24 struckpunct
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 strucknsubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 struckaux:pass
23notnotPARTPolarity=Neg24 struckadvmod
24struckstrikeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 collectedparataxis
25bybyADP_26 lightningcase
26lightninglightningNOUNNumber=Sing24 struckobl
27,,PUNCT_33 killedpunct
28whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel33 killednsubj
29wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin33 killedaux
30veryveryADV_31 likelyadvmod
31likelylikelyADV_33 killedadvmod
32havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf33 killedaux
33killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part26 lightningacl:relcl
34himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 killedobj
35,,PUNCT_39 doubtpunct
36andandCCONJ_39 doubtcc
37somesomeDETPronType=Ind38 historiansdet
38historianshistorianNOUNNumber=Plur39 doubtnsubj
39doubtdoubtVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 collectedconj
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 experimentdet
41experimentexperimentNOUNNumber=Sing42 happenednsubj
42happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 doubtccomp
43asasSCONJ_44 toldmark
44toldtellVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass42 happenedadvcl
45..PUNCT_14 collectedpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reportparticipleBenjamin Franklin's kite experiment not said here1752vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2collectpastthe kiteelectric chargeBenjamin Franklin's kite experimentfrom storm cloudsvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent charge=Theme from cloud=Source
3not strikepast · passivelightningkitevn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument
4killwould · perfectlightningkitelikely propertyvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5doubtpresentsome historiansvn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6happenpastthe experimentvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7tell speech: assertparticiplethe experiment not said herevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8experimentBenjamin Franklinnom experiment «act intransitive»: poss=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:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:17.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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