Sharp things, small objects and little ones, sentence 5
Scissors are carried closed and pointing down and passed handle first.
What happens: carry, close, point down, pass · To what, where: Scissors, handle
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: 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 | Scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pointing | cc |
| 6 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 carried | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 pointing | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 passed | cc |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | conj |
| 10 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 passed | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present · passive | Scissors | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | point down | gerund | down property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pass | participle | handle | first property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme handle=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:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones.lesson:5.
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, 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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