--- title: Queen Victoria first rode on a train in 1842 and saw Bell show her t… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Queen Victoria first rode on a train in 1842 and saw Bell show her the telephone in 1878, but television came only in the 1920s, long after she died in 1901. Who acts: Queen, Bell, television. 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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 (Queen, Bell, television), 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:15 # text = Queen Victoria first rode on a train in 1842 and saw Bell show her the telephone in 1878, but television came only in the 1920s, long after she died in 1901. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Victoria Victoria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 4 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1842 1842 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 Bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 telephone telephone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1878 1878 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 television television NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 1920s 1920s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 29 after after SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advcl 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1901 1901 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **ride** | past | Queen | | | a train | | in 1842; first *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **show** | infinitive | Bell | the telephone | Queen | 1878 | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient telephone=Topic | | 4 | **come** | past | television | | | the 1920s | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1920s=Location | | 5 | **die** | past | television | | | | | in 1901; long *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1901=Attribute | 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: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 ×2. **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 ★★★, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/14/) - next →: [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/)