Olympiad: real languages and codes, sentence 6
In Swahili, many words for people take m- in the singular and wa- in the plural: mtoto and watoto, mtu and watu, mpishi (cook) and wapishi (cooks).
Who acts: many words · What happens: take · To what, where: m, Swahili
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: real languages and codes» 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 (many words), 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 Swahili | case |
| 2 | Swahili | Swahili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swahili | punct |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 words | nmod |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 singular | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 singular | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 singular | det |
| 13 | singular | singular | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wa | cc |
| 15 | wa | wa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 singular | conj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 mtoto | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mtoto | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plural | det |
| 19 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mtoto | amod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 mtoto | punct |
| 21 | mtoto | mtoto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | dep |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 watoto | cc |
| 23 | watoto | watoto | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 mtoto | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mtu | punct |
| 25 | mtu | mtu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mtoto | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 watu | cc |
| 27 | watu | watu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 mtu | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mpishi | punct |
| 29 | mpishi | mpishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mtu | conj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 cook | punct |
| 31 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mpishi | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 cook | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wapishi | cc |
| 34 | wapishi | wapishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mtu | conj |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 cooks | punct |
| 36 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 wapishi | appos |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 cooks | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | many words for people | m | Swahili | in the singular and wa | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent m=Value in swahili=Location |
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:059-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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