--- title: In Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment, reported in 1752, the kite c… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: In Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment, reported in 1752, the kite collected electric charge from storm clouds; he was not struck by lightning, which would very likely have killed him, and some historians doubt the experiment happened as told. Who acts: kite, lightning, historians, experiment. 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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 (kite, lightning, historians, experiment), 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:17 # text = In Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment, reported in 1752, the kite collected electric charge from storm clouds; he was not struck by lightning, which would very likely have killed him, and some historians doubt the experiment happened as told. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 Benjamin Benjamin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Franklin Franklin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 kite kite NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 experiment experiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1752 1752 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 kite kite NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 collected collect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 likely likely ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 acl:relcl _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 doubt doubt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 experiment experiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 ccomp _ _ 43 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:RB:_ 44 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 advcl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | participle | | Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment *not said here* | | 1752 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **collect** | past | the kite | electric charge | | Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment | | from storm clouds | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent charge=Theme from cloud=Source | | 3 | **not** **strike** | past · passive | lightning | kite | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument | | 4 | **kill** | would · perfect | lightning | kite | | | | likely *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **doubt** | present | some historians | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **happen** | past | the experiment | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | the experiment *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **experiment** | | Benjamin Franklin | | | | | | nom experiment «act intransitive»: poss=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:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:17`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/16/) - next →: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/)