Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago, sentence 0
History is the story of how people lived in the past; we put events in order on a timeline, a line where each step stands for the same number of years, like the marks on a ruler.
Who acts: History, people, we, step · What happens: be, live, put, stand · To what, where: story, past, events, order
This is a sentence of the lesson «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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 (History, people, we, step), 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 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 lived | mark |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lived | advmod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 past | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 past | det |
| 11 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | parataxis |
| 15 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 timeline | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 timeline | det |
| 20 | timeline | timeline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 line | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 line | det |
| 23 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 timeline | appos |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 stands | advmod |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 step | det |
| 26 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stands | nsubj |
| 27 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 line | acl:relcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 number | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 number | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 number | amod |
| 31 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stands | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 years | case |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 number | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 marks | punct |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 marks | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 marks | det |
| 37 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 number | nmod |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 ruler | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 ruler | det |
| 40 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 marks | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | History | the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | people | the past | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in past=Location | ||||
| 3 | put | past | we | events | order | on a timeline | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent event=Theme on timeline=Destination | ||
| 4 | stand | present | each step | for the same number of years like the marks on a ruler | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for number=Attribute |
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:048-time-and-history.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): R8-pos-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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