Medicines, doctors and hospitals, sentence 17
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic, in 1928.
Who acts: Alexander · What happens: discover, use · To what, where: penicillin, 1928
This is a sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» 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 (Alexander), 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 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 2 | Fleming | Fleming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alexander | flat |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | penicillin | penicillin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 penicillin | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 antibiotic | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 antibiotic | amod |
| 8 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 9 used | advmod |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 antibiotic | amod |
| 10 | antibiotic | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 penicillin | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 1928 | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1928 | case |
| 13 | 1928 | 1928 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 discovered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Alexander | penicillin | 1928 | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penicillin=Topic | |||
| 2 | use | participle | widely property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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