Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 2
Squeeze a pea-sized blob of toothpaste."), so a story about your morning will not get anyone's teeth clean.
Who acts: you, story · What happens: squeeze, size, not get · To what, where: sized blob, teeth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» 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 (you, story), 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 | Squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blob | det |
| 3 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sized | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 pea | punct |
| 5 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 blob | amod |
| 6 | blob | blob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Squeeze | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 toothpaste | case |
| 8 | toothpaste | toothpaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blob | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Squeeze | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Squeeze | punct |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 Squeeze | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 get | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | nsubj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 morning | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 morning | nmod:poss |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 story | nmod |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 get | advmod |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Squeeze | parataxis |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 anyone | case |
| 24 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 get | obj |
| 25 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 get | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Squeeze | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | imperative | you not said here | a sized blob of toothpaste | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | size | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not get in a quote | future | a story about your morning | anyone's teeth | clean property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus |
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:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.lesson:2.
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.
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