Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 5

The steam engine burned coal to boil water, and the steam pushed the engine; from the 1820s steam trains pulled long lines of wagons on iron rails.

Who acts: steam engine, steam, steam trains · What happens: burn, boil, push, pull · To what, where: coal, water, engine, long lines, 1820s

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 (steam engine, steam, steam trains), 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 engine	det
2	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engine	compound
3	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 boil	mark
7	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 burned	advcl
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boil	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pushed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pushed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 steam	det
12	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pushed	nsubj
13	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 engine	det
15	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pushed	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 1820s	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 1820s	det
19	1820s	1820	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	22 pulled	obl
20	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trains	compound
21	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pulled	nsubj
22	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	parataxis
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lines	amod
24	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pulled	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 wagons	case
26	wagons	wagon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lines	nmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 rails	case
28	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rails	compound
29	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wagons	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	burn	past	the steam engine	coal		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme
2	boil	to-infinitive	the steam engine not said here	water		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	push	past	the steam	the engine		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Theme
4	pull	past	steam trains	long lines of wagons on iron rails	the 1820s	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent line=Theme from 1820=Initial_Location

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:5.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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