Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 16

What looks like a horse's backward knee is really its ankle; its knee is higher up, and artists study anatomy so legs look right.

Who acts: ankle, knee, artists, legs · What happens: look, be, study · To what, where: ankle, anatomy

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 (ankle, knee, artists, legs), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ankle	csubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	8 knee	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knee	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 horse	case
7	backward	backward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knee	amod
8	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ankle	cop
10	really	really	ADV	_	12 ankle	advmod
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ankle	nmod:poss
12	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 higher	punct
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knee	nmod:poss
15	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 higher	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 higher	cop
17	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 ankle	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 higher	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 study	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 study	cc
21	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 study	nsubj
22	study	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 higher	conj
23	anatomy	anatomy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 study	obj
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 look	mark
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 look	nsubj
26	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 study	advcl
27	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 look	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	knee's ankle		like a horse's backward knee	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present		knee's ankle		tree rules
3	is	present	ankle's knee		high property	tree rules
4	study	present	artists	anatomy		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anatomy=Topic
5	look	present	legs		right property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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