Trains and the Underground, sentence 16
Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains began in 1964 and are famous for running on time.
Who acts: Shinkansen bullet trains · What happens: begin, be, run · To what, where: 1964
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 (Shinkansen bullet trains), 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 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 trains | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Japan | case |
| 3 | Shinkansen | Shinkansen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 trains | compound |
| 4 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trains | compound |
| 5 | trains | train | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1964 | case |
| 8 | 1964 | 1964 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 began | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 famous | cc |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 famous | cop |
| 11 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 began | conj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 running | mark |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 famous | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 running | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains | 1964 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains not said here | famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains not said here | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:16.
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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