Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 8
Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink.
Who acts: Laundry, red sock · What happens: mean, sort, read, choose, turn · To what, where: colours, labels, right temperature, everything
This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» 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 (Laundry, red sock), 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 | Laundry | Laundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sorting | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sorting | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 reading | punct |
| 6 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sorting | conj |
| 7 | labels | label | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reading | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 choosing | cc |
| 9 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 reading | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 temperature | det |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 temperature | amod |
| 12 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 choosing | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 turns | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sock | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sock | amod |
| 16 | sock | sock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turns | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 wash | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wash | det |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wash | amod |
| 20 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sock | nmod |
| 21 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 22 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 turns | obj |
| 23 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 turns | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Laundry | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sort | gerund | colours | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme | |||||
| 3 | read | gerund | labels | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic | |||||
| 4 | choose | gerund | the right temperature | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme | |||||
| 5 | turn | present | a red sock in a white wash | everything | pink property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=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, 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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:8.
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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