Special effects and stunts, sentence 10
In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time.
Who acts: giant gorilla, small model · What happens: be, move · To what, where: small model, tiny bit
This is a sentence of the lesson «Special effects and stunts» 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 (giant gorilla, small model), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 film | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 film | det |
| 3 | 1933 | 1933 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 film | nummod |
| 4 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Kong | compound |
| 6 | Kong | Kong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 film | appos |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gorilla | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gorilla | amod |
| 9 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 model | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 model | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 model | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 model | amod |
| 13 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 film | conj |
| 14 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 model | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bit | det |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bit | amod |
| 19 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bit | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 model | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the giant gorilla | a small model | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | participle | a small model not said here | a tiny bit at a time | by hand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by hand=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:025-special-effects-and-stunts.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): 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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