Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 18

Walt Disney was not frozen; he was cremated (his body was burned to ashes, as many families choose) after he died in 1966.

Who acts: many families, Walt · What happens: not freeze, cremate, burn, choose, die · To what, where: Walt, body

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 families, Walt), 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	Walt	Walt	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 frozen	nsubj:pass
2	Disney	Disney	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Walt	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 frozen	advmod
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 cremated	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cremated	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cremated	aux:pass
9	cremated	cremate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 frozen	parataxis
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 burned	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 body	nmod:poss
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burned	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 burned	aux:pass
14	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cremated	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 ashes	case
16	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 burned	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 choose	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 choose	mark
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 families	amod
20	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 choose	nsubj
21	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 burned	advcl
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 burned	punct
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 died	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cremated	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 1966	case
27	1966	1966	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 died	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frozen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not freeze	past · passive		Walt		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	cremate	past · passive		Walt		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	burn	past · passive		Walt's body	to ashes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	choose	present	many families			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	die	past	Walt		in 1966	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1966=Attribute

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:18.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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