Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 4
Most big ideas were built by many people over many years: someone made the first try, others improved it, and one name got famous because it made a good story or sold well.
Who acts: many people, someone, others, one name, name · What happens: build, make, improve, get, sell · To what, where: Most big ideas, first try, try, good story
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 people, someone, others, one name), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 ideas | amod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ideas | amod |
| 3 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 made | parataxis |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | obl:agent |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 years | amod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 someone | punct |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 try | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 try | amod |
| 17 | try | try | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 improved | punct |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 improved | nsubj |
| 20 | improved | improve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 improved | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 got | cc |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 name | nummod |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 27 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 got | xcomp |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 made | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | nsubj |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 got | advcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 story | det |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 story | amod |
| 33 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obj |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 sold | cc |
| 35 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 made | conj |
| 36 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 sold | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | many people | Most big ideas | year | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | |||
| 2 | make | past | someone | the first try | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Product | ||||
| 3 | improve | past | others | try | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | past | one name | famous property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | make | past | name | a good story | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material story=Product | ||||
| 6 | sell | past | name not said here | well property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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:4.
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. 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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