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title: Karl Benz built one of the first cars in 1885, and in 1903 the Wrigh… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: Karl Benz built one of the first cars in 1885, and in 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered aeroplane flight, which lasted 12 seconds. Who acts: Karl, Wright brothers, first powered aeroplane flight. A sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of Mova's prima
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# The Industrial Revolution, sentence 15

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Karl Benz built one of the first cars in 1885, and in 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered aeroplane flight, which lasted 12 seconds.

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**Who acts:** Karl, Wright brothers, first powered aeroplane flight · **What happens:** build, make, power, last · **To what, where:** one, 1885, first powered aeroplane flight, 1903

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» 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 (Karl, Wright brothers, first powered aeroplane flight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:030-the-industrial-revolution.lesson:15
# text = Karl Benz built one of the first cars in 1885, and in 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered aeroplane flight, which lasted 12 seconds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 030-the-industrial-revolution.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 ×1
1	Karl	Karl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Benz	Benz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1885	1885	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1903	1903	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Wright	Wright	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
21	powered	power	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	aeroplane	aeroplane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Karl | one of the first cars |  | 1885 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Wright brothers | the first powered aeroplane flight |  | 1903 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Product |
| 3 | **power** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **last** | past | the first powered aeroplane flight |  |  |  | second |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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:history:030-the-industrial-revolution.lesson:15`.

**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 ×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/).

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