Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 3
Picture Ling drawing a horse whose legs look wrong: she checks a photo and sees that the joint that bends "backwards" is really the horse's ankle, because horses walk on tiptoe.
Who acts: Picture Ling, legs, horse, joint, horses · What happens: draw, look, check, see, bend, be · To what, where: horse, photo, ankle, tiptoe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Picture Ling, legs, horse, joint), 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 | Picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ling | compound |
| 2 | Ling | ling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Ling | acl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawing | obj |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 legs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 look | nsubj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 horse | acl:relcl |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 look | xcomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 checks | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 checks | nsubj |
| 12 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ling | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 photo | det |
| 14 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 checks | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sees | cc |
| 16 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 checks | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 ankle | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 joint | det |
| 19 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ankle | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 bends | nsubj |
| 21 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 joint | acl:relcl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 backwards | punct |
| 23 | backwards | backward | ADV | _ | 21 bends | advmod |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 backwards | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ankle | cop |
| 26 | really | really | ADV | _ | 30 ankle | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ankle | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 30 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sees | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 walk | punct |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 walk | mark |
| 33 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 walk | nsubj |
| 34 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ankle | advcl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 tiptoe | case |
| 36 | tiptoe | tiptoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 walk | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | Picture Ling not said here | a horse | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | present | legs | wrong property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | check | present | horse | a photo | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present | horse not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | bend | present | the joint | backward property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | the joint | the horse's ankle | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | walk | present | horses | tiptoe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tiptoe=Trajectory |
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:3.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
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