--- title: Columbus really did carry a compass, Queen Victoria really did ride… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Columbus really did carry a compass, Queen Victoria really did ride on trains, and Abraham Lincoln and Taras Shevchenko really did sit for photographs. Who acts: Columbus, Queen, Abraham. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school wit --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, sentence 5 Columbus really did carry a compass, Queen Victoria really did ride on trains, and Abraham Lincoln and Taras Shevchenko really did sit for photographs. **Who acts:** Columbus, Queen, Abraham · **What happens:** carry, ride, sit · **To what, where:** compass, trains 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 (Columbus, Queen, Abraham), 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:5 # text = Columbus really did carry a compass, Queen Victoria really did ride on trains, and Abraham Lincoln and Taras Shevchenko really did sit for photographs. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 8 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 Victoria Victoria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 18 Lincoln Lincoln PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Taras Taras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 Shevchenko Shevchenko PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 really really ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 photographs photograph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past · do-support | Columbus | a compass | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compass=Theme | | 2 | **ride** | past · do-support | Queen | | | trains | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit** | past · do-support | Abraham and Taras | | | | | for photographs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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 ★★★, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/4/) - next →: [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/)