BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 11
Some old dates are traditions rather than measurements, like Kyiv's founding in AD 482, and big claims, like aliens building Stonehenge, need evidence: archaeologists have found the tools, homes and bones of the people who really built it.
Who acts: old dates, measurements, big claims, archaeologists, people · What happens: be, found, build, need, find · To what, where: traditions, AD, Stonehenge, evidence, tools
This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» 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 (old dates, measurements, big claims, archaeologists), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 dates | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dates | amod |
| 3 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 traditions | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 traditions | cop |
| 5 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 8 measurements | cc |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 rather | fixed |
| 8 | measurements | measurement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 traditions | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 founding | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 founding | case |
| 11 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 founding | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Kyiv | case |
| 13 | founding | found | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 measurements | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 AD | case |
| 15 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 founding | nmod |
| 16 | 482 | 482 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 AD | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 need | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 claims | cc |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 claims | amod |
| 20 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 need | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 aliens | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 aliens | case |
| 23 | aliens | alien | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 claims | nmod |
| 24 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 claims | acl |
| 25 | Stonehenge | Stonehenge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 building | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 claims | punct |
| 27 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 traditions | conj |
| 28 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 need | obj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 found | punct |
| 30 | archaeologists | archaeologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 found | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 found | aux |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 traditions | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tools | det |
| 34 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 found | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 homes | punct |
| 36 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tools | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bones | cc |
| 38 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tools | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 people | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 people | det |
| 41 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tools | nmod |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 built | nsubj |
| 43 | really | really | ADV | _ | 44 built | advmod |
| 44 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 people | acl:relcl |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 built | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 traditions | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | some old dates | traditions rather measurements | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | found | gerund | measurements not said here | AD | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | build | gerund | big claims like aliens not said here | Stonehenge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stonehenge=Product | ||||
| 4 | need | present | big claims like aliens | evidence | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot evidence=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | present · perfect | archaeologists | the tools of the people and homes and bones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Topic | ||||
| 6 | build | past | the people | evidence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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