Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 0
An invention is a new thing or a new way of doing something that solves a problem.
Who acts: invention, new way · What happens: be, do, solve · To what, where: new thing, something, problem
This is a sentence of the lesson «Inventions, computers 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 (invention, new way), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 invention | det |
| 2 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 way | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | conj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 doing | mark |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 doing | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 solves | nsubj |
| 15 | solves | solve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 something | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 problem | det |
| 17 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 solves | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a invention | a new thing or a new way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | a new way not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | solve | present | a problem | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic |
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:059-inventions-computers-internet.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): R7-rel-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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