Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 16
From 1866 a telegraph cable under the Atlantic Ocean joined Europe and North America.
Who acts: telegraph cable · What happens: join · To what, where: Europe, 1866
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 (telegraph cable), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 1866 | case |
| 2 | 1866 | 1866 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 joined | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cable | det |
| 4 | telegraph | telegraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cable | compound |
| 5 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joined | nsubj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 Ocean | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ocean | det |
| 8 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ocean | compound |
| 9 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cable | nmod |
| 10 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 joined | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 America | cc |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 America | compound |
| 14 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Europe | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 joined | 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 | join | past | a telegraph cable under the Atlantic Ocean | Europe and North America | 1866 | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent europe=Patient |
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: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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