Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 9
Trouble seeing may mean you need an eye test.
Who acts: seeing, you · What happens: see, mean, need · To what, where: eye test · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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 (seeing, 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 | Trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeing | compound |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 mean | csubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 need | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | ccomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 test | det |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 test | compound |
| 9 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 need | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | mean | may | seeing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | need | present | you | a eye test | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot test=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:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:9.
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): no change. 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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