Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, sentence 2
Scientists showed people a video of players passing a ball and asked them to count the passes; about half of them did not notice a person in a gorilla suit walking right through the middle.
Who acts: Scientists, players, half, person · What happens: show, pass, ask, count, not notice, walk · To what, where: video, people, ball, passes, person, gorilla suit
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of the everyday 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 (Scientists, players, half, person), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 showed | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 video | det |
| 5 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 players | case |
| 7 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 video | nmod |
| 8 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 players | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ball | det |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passing | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 count | mark |
| 15 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 passes | det |
| 17 | passes | pass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 count | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 notice | punct |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 half | advmod |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 25 notice | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 half | nmod |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 notice | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 notice | advmod |
| 25 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 count | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 person | det |
| 27 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 notice | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 suit | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 suit | det |
| 30 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 suit | compound |
| 31 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 person | nmod |
| 32 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 person | acl |
| 33 | right | right | ADV | _ | 36 middle | advmod |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 middle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 middle | det |
| 36 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 walking | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Scientists | a video of players | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient video=Topic | |||
| 2 | pass | gerund | players not said here | a ball | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Scientists not said here | people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | count not said to happen | to-infinitive | Scientists not said here | the passes | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not notice | past · do-support | half of Scientists | a person | a gorilla suit | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | walk | gerund | a person not said here | the middle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Trajectory |
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:everyday:011-eyes-up.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): R7-rel-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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