Thinking about noticing, sentence 3
A sound straight in front of you or straight behind you reaches both ears at the same time, so turning your head a little helps you find it.
Who acts: sound, turning, you · What happens: reach, turn, help, find · To what, where: ears, head, straight
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, turning, you), 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 | 12 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | straight | straight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reaches | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sound | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 front | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 reaches | cc |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 reaches | advmod |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 straight | nmod |
| 12 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 ears | det |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reaches | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reaches | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turning | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 helps | advmod |
| 21 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 helps | csubj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turning | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 little | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 turning | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 reaches | parataxis |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 find | nsubj |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 helps | ccomp |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 find | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 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 in front of you | both ears | time | straight property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||
| 2 | turn | gerund | your head | a little obl:unmarked | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | present | turning | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | present | you | straight | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:3.
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 ×4, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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