Chores and broken things, sentence 6
Carrying a few plates at a time is safer than carrying a big pile that can slip and break.
Who acts: Carrying, big pile · What happens: carry, be, slip, break · To what, where: few plates, big pile
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» 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 (Carrying, big pile), 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 | Carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 safer | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 plates | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 plates | amod |
| 4 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Carrying | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carrying | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 safer | cop |
| 9 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 carrying | mark |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 safer | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pile | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pile | amod |
| 14 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 slip | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 slip | aux |
| 17 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pile | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 break | cc |
| 19 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 slip | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 safer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | a few plates | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Carrying | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | Carrying not said here | a big pile | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slip | can | a big pile | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | break | infinitive | a big pile not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:111-chores-and-broken-things.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.
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