Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★, sentence 4
People talk big and small: "my bike's a total pile of rust" may mean three orange spots, while "the kettle's got a bit of fur" may mean a crust as thick as a coin - a detective checks the real size.
Who acts: People, bike, total pile, kettle, detective · What happens: talk, pile, mean, get, check · To what, where: big, three orange spots, bit, crust, real size · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» of the chemistry 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 (People, bike, total pile, kettle), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 small | cc |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 big | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pile | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bike | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pile | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 bike | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pile | det |
| 12 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pile | amod |
| 13 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rust | case |
| 15 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pile | nmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pile | punct |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 mean | aux |
| 18 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 talk | parataxis |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 spots | nummod |
| 20 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spots | amod |
| 21 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mean | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 mean | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 got | mark |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 got | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kettle | det |
| 26 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | nsubj |
| 27 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 got | aux |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 mean | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bit | det |
| 30 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 fur | case |
| 32 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bit | nmod |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 got | punct |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 mean | aux |
| 35 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 mean | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 crust | det |
| 37 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mean | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 thick | advmod |
| 39 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 crust | amod |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 coin | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 coin | det |
| 42 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 thick | obl |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 checks | punct |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 detective | det |
| 45 | detective | detective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 checks | nsubj |
| 46 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 talk | parataxis |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 size | det |
| 48 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 size | amod |
| 49 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 checks | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | People | big | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent big=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pile in a quote | my bike | of rust | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | may | a total pile | three orange spots | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present · perfect | the kettle | a bit of fur | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mean | may | a total pile not said here | a crust | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Topic | ||||
| 6 | check | present | a detective | the real size | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Theme |
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:chemistry:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:4.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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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