Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 5

Educated Europeans knew the Earth was round two thousand years before Columbus; the argument was about how BIG it was, and Columbus got that badly wrong.

Who acts: Educated Europeans, Earth, argument, Columbus · What happens: educated, know, be, get · 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 (Educated Europeans, Earth, argument, Columbus), 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	Educated	educated	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Europeans	amod
2	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 round	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 round	cop
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	ccomp
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 thousand	compound
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 round	obl:unmarked
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 Columbus	case
12	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 years	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 BIG	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 argument	det
15	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 BIG	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 BIG	cop
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 BIG	case
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 BIG	advmod
19	BIG	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 BIG	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 BIG	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 got	cc
24	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 got	nsubj
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 BIG	conj
26	that	that	ADV	_	28 wrong	advmod
27	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 wrong	advmod
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 got	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	educated	participle				tree rules
2	know	past	Educated Europeans			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the Earth	year	round property	tree rules
4	is	past	the argument		big property	tree rules
5	get	past	Columbus		wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:5.

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, 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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