Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 8
In "The trophy didn't fit in the suitcase because it was too big", "it" means the trophy; with "too small", "it" means the suitcase.
Who acts: trophy · What happens: not fit, be, mean · To what, where: suitcase, trophy · 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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 fit | mark |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fit | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trophy | det |
| 4 | trophy | trophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fit | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fit | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fit | advmod |
| 7 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 suitcase | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 suitcase | det |
| 10 | suitcase | suitcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fit | obl |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 big | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 big | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 big | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 big | advmod |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fit | advcl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 big | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 big | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 it | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 big | advcl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 it | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fit | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trophy | det |
| 23 | trophy | trophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 small | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 small | case |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 small | punct |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 small | advmod |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fit | parataxis |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 small | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fit | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fit | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 means | nsubj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 means | punct |
| 34 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fit | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 suitcase | det |
| 36 | suitcase | suitcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 means | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fit | 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 | not fit in a quote | past · do-support | the trophy | the suitcase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | trophy | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | the trophy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trophy=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | trophy | the suitcase | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitcase=Topic |
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:8.
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 ×2, 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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