--- title: On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered, cont… — Transport: from horses to planes · tree and pragmatics description: On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight in an aeroplane; it lasted 12 seconds. Who acts: Wright brothers, flight. 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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, flight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:9 # text = On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight in an aeroplane; it lasted 12 seconds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 099-transport-horses-to-planes.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 3 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 1903 1903 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Wright Wright PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 11 powered power VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 14 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 aeroplane aeroplane NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 lasted last VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 21 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the Wright brothers | the first powered controlled flight | | 17 December | | in a aeroplane | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Product | | 2 | **power** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **control** | participle | | | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **last** | past | flight | | | | second | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | 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:world:099-transport-horses-to-planes.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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Transport: from horses to planes, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/7/) - next →: [Transport: from horses to planes, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/)