--- title: Passenger railways began in the 1820s and 1830s, the first cars in 1… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Passenger railways began in the 1820s and 1830s, the first cars in 1885–1886, and the first powered aeroplane flew in 1903. Who acts: Passenger railways, first powered aeroplane. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/19/) [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/) / [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/) / 19 # Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 19 Passenger railways began in the 1820s and 1830s, the first cars in 1885–1886, and the first powered aeroplane flew in 1903. **Who acts:** Passenger railways, first powered aeroplane · **What happens:** begin, power, fly · **To what, where:** 1820s, 1903 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 (Passenger railways, first powered aeroplane), 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:19 # text = Passenger railways began in the 1820s and 1830s, the first cars in 1885–1886, and the first powered aeroplane flew in 1903. # 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 Passenger passenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 1820s 1820 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 1830s 1830 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1885 1885 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 15 – - PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 1886 1886 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 21 powered power VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 aeroplane aeroplane NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 1903 1903 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | Passenger railways | | | the 1820s and 1830s and the first cars in 1885 1886 | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **power** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fly** | past | the first powered aeroplane | | | 1903 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1903=Location | 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:19`. **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 ★★★, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/18/) - next →: [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/)