--- title: Educated people in Columbus's time already knew the Earth was round,… — Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires · tree and pragmatics description: Educated people in Columbus's time already knew the Earth was round, so the story that he proved it is a myth. Who acts: Educated people, Earth, Columbus, story. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Educated people, Earth, Columbus, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.lesson:11 # text = Educated people in Columbus's time already knew the Earth was round, so the story that he proved it is a myth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Educated educated VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 already already ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **educated** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | past | Educated people in Columbus's time | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | the Earth | | | | | round *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **prove** | past | Columbus | story | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | the story | a myth | | | | | tree rules | 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](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:geography:033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.lesson:11`. **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): 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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