Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 0
For most of history people travelled on foot, by boat, or with animals.
Who acts: people · What happens: travel · To what, where: foot
This is a sentence of the lesson «Transport: from horses to planes» 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 (people), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 most | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 travelled | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 history | case |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 most | nmod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | nsubj |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boat | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 boat | case |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 animals | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 animals | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 animals | case |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | people | foot | for most of history; by boat; with animals | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory |
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:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:0.
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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