Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors, sentence 8
To reach a high cupboard, use a steady step stool or ask someone tall, never a wheeled chair or the counter edge.
Who acts: you · What happens: reach, use, ask, wheel · To what, where: high cupboard, steady step stool, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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 (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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 reach | mark |
| 2 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cupboard | det |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cupboard | amod |
| 5 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reach | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stool | det |
| 9 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stool | amod |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stool | compound |
| 11 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 use | conj |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 ask | iobj |
| 15 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 someone | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chair | punct |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 chair | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chair | det |
| 19 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 chair | amod |
| 20 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 someone | appos |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 edge | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 edge | det |
| 23 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 edge | compound |
| 24 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chair | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | to-infinitive | you not said here | a high cupboard | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cupboard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | imperative | you not said here | a steady step stool | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stool=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | someone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | wheel | participle | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: 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:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors.lesson:8.
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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