Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 11

Perspective shows distance on flat paper: far things look smaller, and parallel lines like road edges seem to meet at a vanishing point on the horizon.

Who acts: Perspective, far things, parallel lines · What happens: show, look, seem, meet, vanish · To what, where: distance, flat paper, vanishing point

This is a sentence of the lesson «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see» of the arts 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 (Perspective, far things, parallel lines), 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	Perspective	perspective	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 paper	case
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paper	amod
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 distance	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	parataxis
11	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 look	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seem	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seem	cc
14	parallel	parallel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lines	amod
15	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seem	nsubj
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 edges	case
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 edges	compound
18	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lines	nmod
19	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 meet	mark
21	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seem	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 point	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 point	det
24	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 point	amod
25	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 meet	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 horizon	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 horizon	det
28	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 point	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	Perspective	distance	flat paper		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent distance=Recipient
2	look	present	far things			small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	seem	present	parallel lines like road edges				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	meet	to-infinitive	parallel lines like road edges not said here		a vanishing point on the horizon		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	vanish	gerund					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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, 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:arts:012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.lesson:11.

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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