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title: Every big invention, such as the telephone, seemed strange or scary… — The future: fears, rules and your part · tree and pragmatics
description: Every big invention, such as the telephone, seemed strange or scary at first and later became normal. Who acts: big invention. A sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The future: fears, rules and your part, sentence 16

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Every big invention, such as the telephone, seemed strange or scary at first and later became normal.

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**Who acts:** big invention · **What happens:** seem, become

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» of the ai 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 (big invention), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:025-future-fears-rules.lesson:16
# text = Every big invention, such as the telephone, seemed strange or scary at first and later became normal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 025-future-fears-rules.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	telephone	telephone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | every big invention such the telephone |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | every big invention such the telephone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late, normal *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:ai:025-future-fears-rules.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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