--- title: Educated Europeans knew the Earth was round two thousand years befor… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: Educated Europeans knew the Earth was round two thousand years before Columbus; the argument was about how BIG it was, and Columbus got that badly wrong. Who acts: Educated Europeans, Earth, argument, Columbus. 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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 (Educated Europeans, Earth, argument, Columbus), 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:5 # text = Educated Europeans knew the Earth was round two thousand years before Columbus; the argument was about how BIG it was, and Columbus got that badly wrong. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Educated educated VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 Europeans European PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 5 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 compound _ _ 9 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 BIG big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 that that ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 29 . . 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 | **educated** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | past | Educated Europeans | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | the Earth | | | | year | round *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | the argument | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | past | Columbus | | | | | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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: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): R5-strong ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/4/) - next →: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/)