Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 1
Inventors build on earlier ideas: the bicycle needed the wheel, and the car needed both the wheel and the engine.
Who acts: Inventors, bicycle, car · What happens: build, need · To what, where: earlier ideas, wheel
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 (Inventors, bicycle, car), 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 | Inventors | inventor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | nsubj |
| 2 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ideas | case |
| 4 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 ideas | amod |
| 5 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 needed | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bicycle | det |
| 8 | bicycle | bicycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needed | nsubj |
| 9 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 build | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wheel | det |
| 11 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 needed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 needed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 car | det |
| 15 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needed | nsubj |
| 16 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 needed | conj |
| 17 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 19 wheel | cc:preconj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wheel | det |
| 19 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needed | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 engine | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 engine | det |
| 22 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wheel | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Inventors | earlier ideas | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on idea=Source | ||||
| 2 | need | past | the bicycle | the wheel | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wheel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | past | the car | the wheel and the engine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wheel=Theme |
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:1.
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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