Special effects and stunts, sentence 9

When a creature will be added by computer later, actors look at a tennis ball on a stick or a person in a grey suit so their eyes point the right way.

Who acts: computer, actors, eyes · What happens: add, look, point · To what, where: creature, right way

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 (computer, actors, eyes), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 added	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 creature	det
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 added	nsubj:pass
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 added	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 added	aux:pass
6	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 look	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 computer	case
8	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 added	obl:agent
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 added	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
11	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 look	nsubj
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 ball	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ball	det
15	tennis	tennis	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ball	compound
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 stick	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stick	det
19	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ball	nmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 person	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 person	det
22	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stick	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 suit	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 suit	det
25	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 suit	amod
26	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 person	nmod
27	so	so	ADV	_	30 point	advmod
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 point	nsubj
30	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 look	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 way	amod
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 point	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	future · passive	computer	a creature	late property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	look	present	actors		at a tennis ball on a stick or a person in a grey suit	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ball=Theme
3	point	present	actors's eyes	the right way		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient

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:9.

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 ×2. 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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