Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 0
Sharp things are tools: scissors, needles and blades do their job because they cut and poke, so the same edge that cuts paper can cut a finger or an eye.
Who acts: Sharp things, scissors, things, same edge · What happens: be, do, cut, poke, job · To what, where: tools, job, paper, finger
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 (Sharp things, scissors, things, same edge), 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 | Sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tools | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tools | cop |
| 4 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 tools | punct |
| 6 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 needles | punct |
| 8 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 scissors | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blades | cc |
| 10 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tools | conj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tools | parataxis |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 job | nmod:poss |
| 13 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 cut | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cut | nsubj |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 poke | cc |
| 18 | poke | poke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cut | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cut | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 cut | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 edge | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 edge | amod |
| 23 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cut | nsubj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 cuts | nsubj |
| 25 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 edge | acl:relcl |
| 26 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cuts | obj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 cut | aux |
| 28 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tools | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 finger | det |
| 30 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cut | obj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 eye | cc |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 eye | det |
| 33 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 finger | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tools | 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 a | present | Sharp things | tools and blades | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | scissors and needles | scissors's job | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cut | present | things = thing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | poke | present | things = thing not said here | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cut | present | the same edge | paper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paper=Product | ||||
| 6 | cut | can | the same edge | a finger or a eye | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product | ||||
| 7 | job | scissors | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:0.
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 ×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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