--- title: Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896; Marie Curie named… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896; Marie Curie named it, studied it, and with Pierre Curie discovered polonium and radium; she won two Nobel Prizes. Who acts: Henri, Marie. 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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 (Henri, Marie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:16 # text = Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896; Marie Curie named it, studied it, and with Pierre Curie discovered polonium and radium; she won two Nobel Prizes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Henri Henri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Becquerel Becquerel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 radioactivity radioactivity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1896 1896 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Marie Marie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Curie Curie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 studied study VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 Pierre Pierre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 19 Curie Curie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 20 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 polonium polonium NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 radium radium NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Prizes prize PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 30 . . 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 | **discover** | past | Henri | radioactivity | | 1896 | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radioactivity=Topic | | 2 | **name** | past | Marie | radioactivity | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **study** | past | Marie *not said here* | radioactivity | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **discover** | past | Henri *not said here* | polonium and radium | | | | with Pierre Curie | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polonium=Topic | | 5 | **win** | past | Marie | two Nobel Prizes | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | 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. 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