Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages, sentence 6

In Ruvan, mika is girl, pela is dog, tor is sees and sun is feeds; "Mika-n pela tor" means the girl sees the dog.

Who acts: mika, pela, tor, dog sees, feeds, n pela tor · What happens: be, tor, mean, see · To what, where: girl, dog, dog sees, feeds, Ruvan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» 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 (mika, pela, tor, dog sees), 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	_	2 Ruvan	case
2	Ruvan	Ruvan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 means	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
4	mika	mika	X	Foreign=Yes	6 girl	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	cop
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ruvan	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dog	punct
8	pela	pela	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dog	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dog	cop
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sees	compound
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tor	punct
12	tor	tor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sees	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sees	cop
14	sees	see	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 feeds	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sun	cc
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sees	conj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 feeds	cop
18	feeds	feed	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tor	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 feeds	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 feeds	punct
21	Mika	Mika	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 tor	nsubj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Mika	punct
23	n	n	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tor	amod
24	pela	pela	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tor	compound
25	tor	tor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 means	nsubj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 tor	punct
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sees	nsubj
30	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 means	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dog	det
32	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sees	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	mika	girl		tree rules
2	is a	present	pela	dog		tree rules
3	is a	present	tor	dog sees and sun		tree rules
4	is a	present	dog sees and sun	feeds		tree rules
5	tor in a quote		feeds			tree rules
6	mean	present	n pela tor		Ruvan	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	see	present	the girl	the dog		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=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:058-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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