Photography and phone cameras, sentence 10
The "Tank Man" photo from Beijing in 1989 shows an unknown man standing in front of a line of tanks; it captured a real moment, and photographers risked a lot to take and save it.
Who acts: Man photo, unknown man, photo, photographers · What happens: show, stand, capture, risk, take, save · To what, where: unknown man, front, lot, photo
This is a sentence of the lesson «Photography and phone cameras» 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 (Man photo, unknown man, photo, photographers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 photo | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Man | punct |
| 3 | Tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | compound |
| 4 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 photo | compound |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Man | punct |
| 6 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | nsubj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Beijing | case |
| 8 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 photo | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1989 | case |
| 10 | 1989 | 1989 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 photo | nmod |
| 11 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | obj |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 man | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 front | case |
| 17 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 standing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 line | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 line | det |
| 20 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 front | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tanks | case |
| 22 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 line | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 captured | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 captured | nsubj |
| 25 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shows | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 moment | det |
| 27 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 moment | amod |
| 28 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 captured | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 risked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 risked | cc |
| 31 | photographers | photographer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 risked | nsubj |
| 32 | risked | risk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shows | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 lot | det |
| 34 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 risked | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 take | mark |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 lot | acl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 save | cc |
| 38 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 take | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 save | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the Man photo from Beijing in 1989 | a unknown man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a unknown man not said here | front of a line of tanks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 3 | capture | past | photo | moment | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | risk | past | photographers | a lot | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | photographers not said here | a lot not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | save | infinitive | photographers not said here | photo | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson:10.
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, 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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