Thinking about noticing, sentence 14
A sound from one side reaches the nearer ear a tiny bit earlier and louder than the farther ear.
Who acts: sound · What happens: reach · To what, where: nearer ear
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» 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 (sound), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 side | nummod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sound | nmod |
| 6 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ear | det |
| 8 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 ear | amod |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reaches | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bit | amod |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 reaches | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 louder | cc |
| 15 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 earlier | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 ear | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ear | det |
| 18 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 ear | amod |
| 19 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 louder | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reaches | 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 | reach | present | a sound from one side | the nearer ear | early property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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