Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 14
For a long time making silk was a secret, and carrying silkworm eggs out of China was forbidden.
Who acts: making, carrying · What happens: making, be, carry out, forbid · To what, where: silk, secret, silkworm eggs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 (making, carrying), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 secret | obl |
| 5 | making | making | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 secret | csubj |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 secret | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 secret | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forbidden | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forbidden | cc |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 forbidden | csubj |
| 13 | silkworm | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eggs | compound |
| 14 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carrying | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 carrying | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 China | case |
| 17 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 19 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 secret | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 secret | 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 | making | gerund | silk | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | making | a secret | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carry out | gerund | silkworm eggs | of China; out property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | forbid | past · passive | carrying | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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