--- title: Karl Benz built a motor car in 1886, the Wright brothers flew in 190… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: Karl Benz built a motor car in 1886, the Wright brothers flew in 1903, and 66 years later people walked on the Moon. Who acts: Karl, Wright brothers, people. A sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/21/) [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/) / [Light, machines and medicine: how the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/) / 21 # Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 21 Karl Benz built a motor car in 1886, the Wright brothers flew in 1903, and 66 years later people walked on the Moon. **Who acts:** Karl, Wright brothers, people · **What happens:** build, fly, walk · **To what, where:** motor car, 1886, 1903, Moon This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:21 # text = Karl Benz built a motor car in 1886, the Wright brothers flew in 1903, and 66 years later people walked on the Moon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.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): R8-pos-agree ×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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1886 1886 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Wright Wright PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 1903 1903 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **build** | past | Karl | a motor car | | 1886 | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Product | | 2 | **fly** | past | the Wright brothers | | | 1903 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1903=Location | | 3 | **walk** | past | people | | | the Moon | | late *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Trajectory | 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:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:21`. **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): 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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