Inventions, computers and the internet, sentence 3

The printing press made books cheap, so many more people could learn to read; the telephone and the radio carried voices far away almost instantly.

Who acts: printing press, many more people, telephone · What happens: make, learn, read, carry · To what, where: books, voices

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, many more people, telephone), 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	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learn	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 learn	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 learn	aux
13	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 read	mark
15	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 learn	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 carried	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 telephone	det
18	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 radio	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 radio	det
21	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 telephone	conj
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
23	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carried	obj
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 away	advmod
25	away	away	ADV	_	22 carried	advmod
26	almost	almost	ADV	_	27 instantly	advmod
27	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	22 carried	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	learn	could	many more people			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	read	to-infinitive	many more people not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	carry	past	the telephone and the radio	voices	away, instantly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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