Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 11
A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "The lake was as flat as a plate."
Who acts: simile, lake · What happens: compare, use, be · To what, where: two things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 (simile, lake), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 simile | det |
| 2 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 compares | nsubj |
| 3 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 things | nummod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 compares | obj |
| 6 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 compares | advcl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 8 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 20 flat | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 as | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 as | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 like | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 as | punct |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 flat | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 flat | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flat | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flat | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 flat | advmod |
| 20 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 compares | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 plate | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 plate | det |
| 23 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flat | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 flat | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 using | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | a simile | two things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | a simile not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the lake | as a plate; flat 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:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:11.
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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.
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