Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 5
Daddy shows her how to make the drawing simpler and clearer, with the feeler across the mouth.
Who acts: Daddy · What happens: show, make · To what, where: Taffy, drawing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» 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 (Daddy), 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 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shows | iobj |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 make | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 shows | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 drawing | det |
| 8 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | simpler | simple | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 make | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clearer | cc |
| 11 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 simpler | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feeler | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 feeler | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feeler | det |
| 15 | feeler | feeler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mouth | det |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feeler | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Daddy | Taffy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent her=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the drawing | with the feeler across the mouth; simple property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drawing=Product |
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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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