Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 7
Around 1886 Karl Benz built a car with a petrol engine.
Who acts: Karl · What happens: build · To what, where: car, 1886
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 (Karl), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 2 1886 | case |
| 2 | 1886 | 1886 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 built | obl |
| 3 | Karl | Karl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 built | nsubj |
| 4 | Benz | Benz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Karl | flat |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 engine | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 engine | det |
| 10 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 engine | compound |
| 11 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 car | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Karl | a car | 1886 | with a petrol engine | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent car=Theme with engine=Source |
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:7.
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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