Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 3
Champions break a long word into chunks and use a memory trick in their head: "one collar and two sleeves" for necessary (one c, two s), "con + science" for conscience.
Who acts: Champions · What happens: break, use · To what, where: long word, chunks, memory trick, head
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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 (Champions), 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 | Champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 break | nsubj |
| 2 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 break | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 chunks | case |
| 7 | chunks | chunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 break | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 use | cc |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 break | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 trick | det |
| 11 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trick | compound |
| 12 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 use | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 use | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 collar | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 collar | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 collar | nummod |
| 19 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trick | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sleeves | cc |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 sleeves | nummod |
| 22 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 collar | conj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 collar | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 necessary | case |
| 25 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 collar | nmod |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 c | punct |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 c | nummod |
| 28 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 collar | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 two | punct |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 s | nummod |
| 31 | s | s | X | _ | 28 c | amod |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 c | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 break | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 con | punct |
| 35 | con | con | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 science | compound |
| 36 | + | + | SYM | _ | 37 science | cc |
| 37 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 break | obj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 science | punct |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 conscience | case |
| 40 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 break | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 break | 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 | break | present | Champions | a long word | chunks | for conscience | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent word=Patient science=Result | ||
| 2 | use | present | Champions not said here | a memory trick | word's head | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:3.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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