Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles, sentence 9
A grown-up opens parcels with a craft knife or box cutter, because the blades slip easily.
Who acts: grown up, blades · What happens: grow, open, slip · To what, where: parcels
This is a sentence of the lesson «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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 (grown up, blades), 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 | 4 up | det |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 up | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 up | punct |
| 4 | up | up | NOUN | _ | 5 opens | nsubj |
| 5 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | parcels | parcel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opens | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 knife | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knife | det |
| 9 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knife | compound |
| 10 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opens | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 cutter | cc |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cutter | compound |
| 13 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knife | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slip | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 slip | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blades | det |
| 17 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slip | nsubj |
| 18 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opens | advcl |
| 19 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 slip | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | open | present | a grown up | parcels | with a craft knife or box cutter | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent parcel=Patient with knife=Instrument | |||
| 3 | slip | present | the blades | easily property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles.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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