--- title: The Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled, sustained (k… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: The Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled, sustained (kept going, not just a hop) flight in an aeroplane in 1903; people had already flown in hot-air balloons since 1783 and in gliders. Who acts: Wright brothers, people. 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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 (Wright brothers, people), 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:19 # text = The Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled, sustained (kept going, not just a hop) flight in an aeroplane in 1903; people had already flown in hot-air balloons since 1783 and in gliders. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Wright Wright PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 6 first first ADJ JJ NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 amod _ _ 7 powered power VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:acl 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sustained sustain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ _ 14 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 hop hop NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 21 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 aeroplane aeroplane NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 1903 1903 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 already already ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 flown fly VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:amod 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 balloons balloon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 37 since since ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 1783 1783 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 gliders glider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the Wright brothers | the first powered sustained flight | | a aeroplane | | in 1903 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Product | | 2 | **power** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **control** | participle | | the first powered sustained flight *not said here* | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sustain** | participle | | | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **fly** | past · perfect | people | | | air balloons and gliders | since 1783 | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in balloon=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:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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