Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 19
At present it is only pictures, and ... pictures are not always properly understood.»
Who acts: » · What happens: be, not understand · To what, where: pictures
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books 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 (»), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 pictures | case |
| 2 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pictures | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pictures | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pictures | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 pictures | advmod |
| 6 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 understood | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pictures | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pictures | cc |
| 9 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 understood | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 understood | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 understood | advmod |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 understood | advmod |
| 14 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 15 understood | advmod |
| 15 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 understood | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 pictures | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | » | pictures | present obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not understand | present · passive | always, properly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
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:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:19.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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