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title: Photography began in the 1820s and 1830s: Napoleon, who died in 1821… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Photography began in the 1820s and 1830s: Napoleon, who died in 1821, was never photographed, but Abraham Lincoln and Taras Shevchenko, who lived on into the 1850s and 1860s, were. Who acts: Photography, Napoleon, Taras. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history co
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# Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 14

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Photography began in the 1820s and 1830s: Napoleon, who died in 1821, was never photographed, but Abraham Lincoln and Taras Shevchenko, who lived on into the 1850s and 1860s, were.

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**Who acts:** Photography, Napoleon, Taras · **What happens:** begin, die, not photograph, live on, be · **To what, where:** 1820s, Napoleon, 1850s

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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 (Photography, Napoleon, Taras), 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:14
# text = Photography began in the 1820s and 1830s: Napoleon, who died in 1821, was never photographed, but Abraham Lincoln and Taras Shevchenko, who lived on into the 1850s and 1860s, were.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Photography	photography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	1820s	1820	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	1830s	1830	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1821	1821	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	photographed	photograph	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Lincoln	lincoln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
24	Taras	Taras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	Shevchenko	Shevchenko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	on	on	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	1850s	1850	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	1860s	1860	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Photography |  |  | the 1820s and 1830s |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **die** | past | Napoleon |  |  |  |  | in 1821 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1821=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **photograph** | past · passive |  | Napoleon |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **live on** | past | Taras |  |  | the 1850s and 1860s |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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:087-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism.lesson:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

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