Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 1
A letter from Britain to Australia went by ship and took months; an answer took months more.
Who acts: letter, answer · What happens: go, take
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 (letter, answer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Britain | case |
| 4 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 letter | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Australia | case |
| 6 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 letter | nmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 answer | det |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 17 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 took | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a letter from Britain to Australia | by ship | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by ship=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a letter from Britain to Australia not said here | month | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a answer | month | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet.lesson:1.
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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