--- title: The magnetic compass was used by Chinese sailors by about 1100 and b… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The magnetic compass was used by Chinese sailors by about 1100 and by European sailors by about 1200, so Columbus did have one, but the telescope was made only in 1608. Who acts: Chinese sailors, Columbus. 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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 (Chinese sailors, Columbus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:13 # text = The magnetic compass was used by Chinese sailors by about 1100 and by European sailors by about 1200, so Columbus did have one, but the telescope was made only in 1608. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:agent _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 1100 1100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 1200 1200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 21 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 telescope telescope NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1608 1608 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | past · passive | Chinese sailors and European sailors | the magnetic compass | | | | by 1100; by 1200 | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 2 | **have** | past · do-support | Columbus | one | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 3 | **make** | past · passive | | the telescope | | 1608 | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:13`. **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. **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: [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/11/) - next →: [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/)