The vet, sentence 8
Weight tells a lot about health; losing weight can be the first sign of illness, so even a hamster is weighed on small scales.
Who acts: Weight, losing · What happens: tell, lose, be, weigh · To what, where: lot, weight, first sign, hamster, small scales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology 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, losing), 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 | Weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 health | case |
| 6 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lot | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 losing | punct |
| 8 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sign | csubj |
| 9 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 losing | obj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sign | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sign | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sign | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 sign | amod |
| 14 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 illness | case |
| 16 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sign | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 weighed | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 weighed | advmod |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 hamster | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hamster | det |
| 21 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 weighed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 weighed | aux:pass |
| 23 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 losing | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 scales | case |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 scales | amod |
| 26 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 weighed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | 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 | tell speech: assert | present | Weight | a lot | about health | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient about health=Topic | |||
| 2 | lose | gerund | weight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a | can | losing | the first sign | of illness | tree rules | |||
| 4 | weigh | present · passive | a hamster | small scales | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
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:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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.
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