Thinking about noticing, sentence 15
The brain compares the two ears to work out where a sound comes from.
Who acts: brain, sound · What happens: compare, work out, come · To what, where: two ears
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 (brain, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brain | det |
| 2 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 compares | nsubj |
| 3 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ears | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ears | nummod |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 compares | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 work | mark |
| 8 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 compares | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 work | compound:prt |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 comes | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sound | det |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 work | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 comes | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 compares | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | the brain | the two ears | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | work out | to-infinitive | the brain not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present | a sound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:15.
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 ×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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