Photography and phone cameras, sentence 15
Early portraits needed people to keep still for a while, so smiles were hard to hold, and serious faces were also the fashion.
Who acts: Early portraits, smiles, serious faces · What happens: need, keep, be, hold · To what, where: people, fashion
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 (Early portraits, smiles, serious faces), 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 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 portraits | amod |
| 2 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 needed | nsubj |
| 3 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 needed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 people | acl |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 keep | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 while | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 while | det |
| 10 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hard | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 hard | mark |
| 13 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hard | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | cop |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 needed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hold | mark |
| 17 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hard | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fashion | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 faces | cc |
| 20 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 faces | amod |
| 21 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fashion | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 fashion | cop |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 fashion | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fashion | det |
| 25 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | Early portraits | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Early portraits not said here | people not said here | still; while | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | past | smiles | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | to-infinitive | smiles not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | serious faces | the fashion | tree rules |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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