Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 26
John Harrison built clocks in the 1700s accurate enough to find longitude at sea.
Who acts: John · What happens: build, find · To what, where: clocks, 1700s, longitude, sea
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 (John), 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 built | nsubj |
| 2 | Harrison | Harrison | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 John | flat |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1700s | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1700s | det |
| 7 | 1700s | 1700 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 built | obl |
| 8 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clocks | amod |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 accurate | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 accurate | advcl |
| 12 | longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | John | clocks | the 1700s | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Product | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | John not said here | longitude | sea | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent longitude=Theme at sea=Asset |
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:26.
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): R5-strong ×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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