Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago, sentence 11
Stonehenge in England was begun by early farmers about 5,000 years ago.
Who acts: early farmers · What happens: begin · To what, where: Stonehenge
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 (early farmers), 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 | Stonehenge | Stonehenge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 begun | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 England | case |
| 3 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Stonehenge | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begun | aux:pass |
| 5 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 farmers | case |
| 7 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 farmers | amod |
| 8 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 begun | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 5,000 | advmod |
| 10 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 begun | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begun | 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 | begin | past · passive | early farmers | Stonehenge in England | ago property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
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: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): R5-strong ×2. 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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