Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet, sentence 17

Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, which means he was given the official right to it as his invention.

Who acts: Alexander Bell, Bell · What happens: patent, mean, give, invent · To what, where: telephone, 1876, Bell · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alexander Bell, Bell), 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	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Bell	compound
2	Graham	Graham	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Alexander	flat
3	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 patented	nsubj
4	patented	patent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 telephone	det
6	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 patented	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1876	case
8	1876	1876	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 patented	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 patented	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 given	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 given	aux:pass
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 means	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 right	det
16	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 right	amod
17	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 given	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 right	nmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 invention	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 invention	nmod:poss
22	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 given	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 patented	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	patent	past	Alexander Bell	the telephone	1876		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephone=Theme
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	past · passive		Bell		as Bell's invention	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient right=Theme
4	invent		Bell				nom invention «cognition transitive»: poss=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:17.

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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