Galaxies and the Big Bang, sentence 5
Until the 1920s many astronomers thought the Milky Way was the whole universe.
Who acts: many astronomers, Milky Way · What happens: think, be · To what, where: whole universe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Galaxies and the Big Bang» of the space 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 astronomers, Milky Way), 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 | Until | until | ADP | _ | 3 1920s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1920s | det |
| 3 | 1920s | 1920s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 thought | obl |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 astronomers | amod |
| 5 | astronomers | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Way | det |
| 8 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Way | amod |
| 9 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 universe | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 universe | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 universe | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 universe | amod |
| 13 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | many astronomers | until the 1920s | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Milky Way | the whole universe | tree rules |
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:space:024-galaxies-and-the-big-bang.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): 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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