Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 21
That was an old, unkind idea about a whole people, and it is wrong: no people is lazy by nature.
Who acts: That, idea, people · What happens: be · To what, where: old unkind idea
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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 (That, idea, people), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 idea | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 idea | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 idea | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 6 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 idea | amod |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 idea | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrong | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wrong | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wrong | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wrong | cop |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 idea | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 lazy | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lazy | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lazy | cop |
| 21 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 idea | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 nature | case |
| 23 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lazy | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a old unkind idea | about a whole people | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | idea | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | no people | by nature; lazy property | tree rules |
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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:21.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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