Eyes up: noticing your surroundings, sentence 6
Attention is limited: the brain cannot focus fully on two demanding things at the same time.
Who acts: Attention, brain · What happens: be, not focus, demand
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 (Attention, brain), 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 | Attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 limited | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 limited | cop |
| 3 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 focus | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brain | det |
| 6 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 focus | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 focus | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 focus | advmod |
| 9 | focus | focus | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 limited | parataxis |
| 10 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 9 focus | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 things | nummod |
| 13 | demanding | demand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 focus | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 focus | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 limited | 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 | is | present | Attention | limited property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not focus | can | the brain | time | on two demanding things; fully property | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on thing=Topic | |||
| 3 | demand speech: request | gerund | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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: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): no change. 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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