Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas, sentence 10
Stepping on a brick hurts because all your weight presses on one tiny hard spot of the foot, which has lots of nerve endings.
Who acts: weight, one tiny hard spot · What happens: step, hurt, press, have · To what, where: brick, lots
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» 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 (weight, one tiny hard spot), 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 | Stepping | step | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hurts | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 brick | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 brick | det |
| 4 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stepping | obl |
| 5 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 presses | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 weight | det:predet |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presses | nsubj |
| 10 | presses | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurts | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 spot | nummod |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spot | amod |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spot | amod |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presses | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foot | det |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spot | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spot | acl:relcl |
| 22 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 has | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 endings | case |
| 24 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 endings | compound |
| 25 | endings | ending | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lots | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | gerund | a brick | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brick=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | hurt | present | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | press | present | your weight | on one tiny hard spot of the foot | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on spot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | one tiny hard spot of the foot | lots of nerve endings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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:032-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas.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): R5-strong ×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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