--- title: Most big ideas were built by many people over many years: someone ma… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: Most big ideas were built by many people over many years: someone made the first try, others improved it, and one name got famous because it made a good story or sold well. Who acts: many people, someone, others, one name. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/4/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Explorers, scientists and inventors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/) / 4 # Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 4 Most big ideas were built by many people over many years: someone made the first try, others improved it, and one name got famous because it made a good story or sold well. **Who acts:** many people, someone, others, one name, name · **What happens:** build, make, improve, get, sell · **To what, where:** Most big ideas, first try, try, good story This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths 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 (many people, someone, others, one name), 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:4 # text = Most big ideas were built by many people over many years: someone made the first try, others improved it, and one name got famous because it made a good story or sold well. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:agent _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 amod _ _ 17 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 improved improve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **build** | past · passive | many people | Most big ideas | | | year | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 2 | **make** | past | someone | the first try | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Product | | 3 | **improve** | past | others | try | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **get** | past | one name | | | | | famous *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **make** | past | name | a good story | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material story=Product | | 6 | **sell** | past | name *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:4`. **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 ×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: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/3/) - next →: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/)