Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 9
On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight in an aeroplane; it lasted 12 seconds.
Who acts: Wright brothers, flight · What happens: make, power, control, last · To what, where: first powered controlled flight, 17
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 (Wright brothers, flight), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 17 | case |
| 2 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 made | obl |
| 3 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 17 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 17 | flat |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brothers | det |
| 6 | Wright | Wright | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brothers | compound |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flight | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 flight | amod |
| 11 | powered | power | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 flight | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 powered | punct |
| 13 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 flight | amod |
| 14 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 aeroplane | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 aeroplane | det |
| 17 | aeroplane | aeroplane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flight | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 lasted | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lasted | nsubj |
| 20 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 21 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 seconds | nummod |
| 22 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | 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 | make | past | the Wright brothers | the first powered controlled flight | 17 December | in a aeroplane | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Product | ||
| 2 | power | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | control | participle | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | last | past | flight | second | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:9.
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 ×2, 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.
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