Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 9

The idea that people in Columbus's time thought the Earth was flat was spread in the 1800s, partly by a popular book by Washington Irving.

Who acts: people, Earth, popular book · What happens: think, be, spread · To what, where: idea, 1800s · 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 (people, Earth, popular book), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spread	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thought	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 time	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Columbus	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 idea	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Earth	det
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 flat	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flat	cop
13	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	ccomp
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spread	aux:pass
15	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 1800s	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 1800s	det
18	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	15 spread	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 partly	punct
20	partly	partly	ADV	_	15 spread	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 book	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 book	det
23	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 book	amod
24	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spread	obl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 Washington	case
26	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 book	nmod
27	Irving	Irving	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Washington	flat
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people in Columbus's time	the idea not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme
2	is	past	the Earth			flat property	tree rules
3	spread	past · passive	a popular book by Washington	the idea	the 1800s	partly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1800=Destination

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:9.

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. 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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