Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 14
The printing press made books cheaper and helped knowledge spread.
Who acts: printing press · What happens: make, help, spread · To what, where: books
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 (printing press), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 press | det |
| 2 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 press | compound |
| 3 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 helped | cc |
| 8 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 9 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | compound |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 helped | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the printing press | books | cheap property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset book=Product | |||
| 2 | help | past | the printing press not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread | infinitive | the printing press not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:14.
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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