--- title: The idea that people in Columbus's time thought the Earth was flat w… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: The idea that people in Columbus's time thought the Earth was flat was spread in the 1800s, partly by a popular book by Washington Irving. Who acts: people, Earth, popular book. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 9 The idea that people in Columbus's time thought the Earth was flat was spread in the 1800s, partly by a popular book by Washington Irving. **Who acts:** people, Earth, popular book · **What happens:** think, be, spread · **To what, where:** idea, 1800s · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (people, Earth, popular book), 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:9 # text = The idea that people in Columbus's time thought the Earth was flat was spread in the 1800s, partly by a popular book by Washington Irving. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 partly partly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Washington Washington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 Irving Irving PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people in Columbus's time | the idea *not said here* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the Earth | | | | | flat *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **spread** | past · passive | a popular book by Washington | the idea | | the 1800s | | partly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1800=Destination | 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:9`. **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. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/8/) - next →: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/)