Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 9
A hearing aid is a tiny device that makes sounds louder for someone whose hearing has faded; it whistles if it is not fitted right.
Who acts: hearing aid, tiny device, hearing · What happens: be, make, fade, whistle, not fit · To what, where: tiny device, hearing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (hearing aid, tiny device, hearing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 aid | det |
| 2 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aid | compound |
| 3 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 device | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 device | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 device | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 device | amod |
| 7 | device | device | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 device | acl:relcl |
| 10 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 louder | obj |
| 11 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 someone | case |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 louder | obl |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 hearing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 faded | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 faded | aux |
| 17 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 someone | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 whistles | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 whistles | nsubj |
| 20 | whistles | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 device | parataxis |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 fitted | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fitted | aux:pass |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 fitted | advmod |
| 25 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 whistles | advcl |
| 26 | right | right | ADV | _ | 25 fitted | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 device | punct |
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 | is a | present | a hearing aid | a tiny device | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a tiny device | loud property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | fade | present · perfect | hearing | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | whistle | present | hearing | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not fit a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | hearing | right property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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, 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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.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): R7-rel-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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