Photography and phone cameras, sentence 3
Photos have a history and a kindness side: the first photographs needed hours to take, old film cameras held only 24 or 36 shots, and today you should ask before posting a picture of someone.
Who acts: Photos, first photographs, old film cameras, you · What happens: have, need, take, hold, ask, post · To what, where: history, 24 shots, picture
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 (Photos, first photographs, old film cameras, you), 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 | Photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 history | det |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 side | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | compound |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 history | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 photographs | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 photographs | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 photographs | amod |
| 12 | photographs | photograph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 needed | nsubj |
| 13 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 needed | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hours | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cameras | punct |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cameras | amod |
| 19 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cameras | compound |
| 20 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 held | nsubj |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 needed | conj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 24 | advmod |
| 23 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 shots | nummod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 36 | cc |
| 25 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 24 | conj |
| 26 | shots | shot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 held | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ask | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ask | cc |
| 29 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ask | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 ask | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 ask | aux |
| 32 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 needed | conj |
| 33 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 34 posting | mark |
| 34 | posting | post | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 ask | advcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 picture | det |
| 36 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 posting | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 someone | case |
| 38 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 picture | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Photos | a history and a kindness side | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient | ||||
| 2 | need | past | the first photographs | hour | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the first photographs not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hold | past | old film cameras | 24 shots | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | should | you | today | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | post | gerund | you not said here | a picture of someone | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=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: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): 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.
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