Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 7
Educated people in Europe knew the Earth was round since ancient Greek times; Eratosthenes estimated its size more than 2,200 years ago.
Who acts: Educated people, Earth, Eratosthenes · What happens: educated, know, be, estimate · To what, where: size · 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 people, Earth, Eratosthenes), 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 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Europe | case |
| 4 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Earth | det |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 round | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 round | cop |
| 9 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 12 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 round | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 estimated | punct |
| 15 | Eratosthenes | Eratosthenes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 estimated | nsubj |
| 16 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | parataxis |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 size | nmod:poss |
| 18 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 estimated | obj |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 21 2,200 | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 more | fixed |
| 21 | 2,200 | 2,200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 16 estimated | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | educated | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | know | past | Educated people in Europe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Earth | time | round property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | estimate | past | Eratosthenes | Earth's size | ago property | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent size=Value |
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:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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