Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 12

Today satellites photograph every part of the Earth, and GPS can tell your position to within a few metres — but the last great blank spaces, like the poles, were reached only about a hundred years ago.

Who acts: satellites, GPS · What happens: photograph, tell, reach · To what, where: part, position, few metres, last great blank spaces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» 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 (satellites, GPS), 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	Today	today	ADV	_	3 photograph	advmod
2	satellites	satellite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 photograph	nsubj
3	photograph	photograph	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 part	det
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 photograph	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 photograph	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
11	GPS	GPS	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 photograph	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 position	nmod:poss
15	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 metres	case
17	within	within	ADP	_	16 to	fixed
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 metres	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 metres	amod
20	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tell	obl
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 reached	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 reached	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 spaces	det
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spaces	amod
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spaces	amod
26	blank	blank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spaces	amod
27	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 reached	nsubj:pass
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 poles	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 poles	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 poles	det
31	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 spaces	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 spaces	punct
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 reached	aux:pass
34	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 photograph	conj
35	only	only	ADV	_	39 years	advmod
36	about	about	ADV	_	38 hundred	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 years	det
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 years	nummod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 ago	obl:unmarked
40	ago	ago	ADV	_	34 reached	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 photograph	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	photograph	present	satellites	every part of the Earth		today property	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	can	GPS	your position	a few metres		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent position=Topic to metre=Recipient
3	reach	past · passive		the last great blank spaces like the poles		ago property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:12.

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 ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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