--- title: Marie Curie, born in Poland and working in France, discovered the ra… — The age of science · tree and pragmatics description: Marie Curie, born in Poland and working in France, discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium and was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, in two different sciences, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. Who acts: Marie. A sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The age of science](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/) / 16 # The age of science, sentence 16 Marie Curie, born in Poland and working in France, discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium and was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, in two different sciences, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. **Who acts:** Marie · **What happens:** bear, work, discover, be, win · **To what, where:** Marie, Poland, radioactive elements, first person, two Nobel Prizes, two different sciences This is a sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history 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 (Marie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:16 # text = Marie Curie, born in Poland and working in France, discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium and was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, in two different sciences, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 029-the-age-of-science.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): R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Marie Marie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 2 Curie Curie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Poland Poland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 14 radioactive radioactive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 elements element NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound 16 polonium polonium NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 radium radium NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 23 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Prizes prize PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 32 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 sciences science NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 physics physic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 1903 1903 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 chemistry chemistry NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 1911 1911 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | participle | | Marie *not said here* | | Poland | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **work** | gerund | | | | | | in France | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in france=Theme | | 3 | **discover** | past | Marie | the radioactive elements | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | past | Marie *not said here* | the first person | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **win** | to-infinitive | Marie *not said here* | two Nobel Prizes | | two different sciences and physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911 | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | 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:history:029-the-age-of-science.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): R5-strong ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The age of science, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/14/) - next →: [The Industrial Revolution, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/)