Thinking about noticing, sentence 16
Sounds straight in front of or behind you are harder to place, so turning your head helps.
Who acts: Sounds, turning · What happens: be, place, turn, help · To what, where: head
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 (Sounds, turning), 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 | Sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 harder | nsubj |
| 2 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 front | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 front | case |
| 4 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sounds | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 harder | case |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 harder | cc |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 harder | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 harder | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 harder | cop |
| 10 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 place | mark |
| 12 | place | place | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 harder | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 helps | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 helps | advmod |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 helps | csubj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turning | obj |
| 18 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 harder | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 harder | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sounds | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place | to-infinitive | Sounds not said here | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | your head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | present | turning | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:16.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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