Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 2
Some words point back to something earlier, and you must work out which: in "The trophy didn't fit in the suitcase because it was too big", "it" is the trophy, but with "too small", "it" is the suitcase.
Who acts: words, you, trophy · What happens: point back, work out, not fit, be · To what, where: something, suitcase, trophy, small suitcase · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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 (words, you, trophy), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 point | nsubj |
| 3 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 point | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 point | obl |
| 7 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 something | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 work | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 work | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 work | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 work | aux |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 point | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 work | compound:prt |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 work | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 in | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 work | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 fit | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trophy | det |
| 19 | trophy | trophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fit | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fit | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 fit | advmod |
| 22 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 in | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 suitcase | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 suitcase | det |
| 25 | suitcase | suitcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fit | obl |
| 26 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 big | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 big | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 big | cop |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 big | advmod |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fit | advcl |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 big | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 big | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 it | punct |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 big | advcl |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 it | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 trophy | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 trophy | det |
| 38 | trophy | trophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fit | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 suitcase | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 52 suitcase | cc |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 small | case |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 small | punct |
| 43 | too | too | ADV | _ | 44 small | advmod |
| 44 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 suitcase | amod |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 small | punct |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 small | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 small | punct |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 small | expl |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 small | punct |
| 50 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 suitcase | cop |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 suitcase | det |
| 52 | suitcase | suitcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 trophy | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 point | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point back | present | some words | something | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to something=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | work out | must | you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not fit in a quote | past · do-support | the trophy | the suitcase | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in suitcase=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | trophy | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the trophy but the small suitcase | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | the small suitcase | 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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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