Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 0
For most of history a long message could travel only as fast as the person or animal carrying it.
Who acts: long message, person · What happens: travel, carry · To what, where: message
This is a sentence of the lesson «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world 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 (long message, person), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 most | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 travel | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 history | case |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 most | nmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 message | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 message | amod |
| 7 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travel | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 travel | aux |
| 9 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 travel | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fast | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 animal | cc |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 person | conj |
| 18 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 person | acl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carrying | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | could | a long message | for most of history; fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | the person or animal not said here | message | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-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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