Active and passive voice, modal verbs, sentence 6
In the passive voice the subject receives the action: "The cake was eaten by the dog."
Who acts: subject, dog · What happens: receive, eat · To what, where: action, passive voice, cake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» of the english 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 (subject, dog), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 voice | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 3 | passive | passive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 receives | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 subject | det |
| 6 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 receives | nsubj |
| 7 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 action | det |
| 9 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 receives | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 receives | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 receives | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cake | det |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eaten | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 eaten | aux:pass |
| 15 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 receives | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 dog | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eaten | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 receives | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 receives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | present | the subject | the action | the passive voice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | past · passive | the dog | the cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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:english:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/6/