Telescopes and light, sentence 7
Isaac Newton built an early working reflecting telescope in 1668.
Who acts: Isaac Newton · What happens: build, reflect · To what, where: early working reflecting telescope, 1668
This is a sentence of the lesson «Telescopes and light» 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 (Isaac Newton), 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 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Newton | compound |
| 2 | Newton | Newton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 telescope | det |
| 5 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 telescope | amod |
| 6 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 telescope | compound |
| 7 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 telescope | amod |
| 8 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1668 | case |
| 10 | 1668 | 1668 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 built | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | Isaac Newton | a early working reflecting telescope | 1668 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telescope=Product | |||
| 2 | reflect | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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:space:027-telescopes-and-light.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): no change. 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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