Trains and the Underground, sentence 12
The London Underground opened in 1863 and was the first underground railway in the world.
Who acts: London Underground · What happens: open, be · To what, where: 1863, first underground railway, world
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trains and the Underground» of the technology 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 (London Underground), 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 | 3 Underground | det |
| 2 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Underground | compound |
| 3 | Underground | Underground | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1863 | case |
| 6 | 1863 | 1863 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 opened | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 railway | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 railway | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 railway | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 railway | amod |
| 11 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 railway | amod |
| 12 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 railway | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the London Underground | 1863 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1863=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the London Underground not said here | the first underground railway | the world | 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:technology:021-trains-and-the-underground.lesson:12.
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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