The sea, waves and swimming pools, sentence 7
She shuts it and tells her aunt, and that small act could save a life.
Who acts: cousin, small act · What happens: shut, tell, save · To what, where: gate, aunt, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» 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 (cousin, small act), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shuts | nsubj |
| 2 | shuts | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shuts | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tells | cc |
| 5 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shuts | conj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 save | cc |
| 10 | that | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 12 act | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 act | amod |
| 12 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 save | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 save | aux |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tells | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 save | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shuts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | present | cousin | gate | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | cousin not said here | cousin's aunt | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aunt=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | save | could | that small act | a life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:233-sea-and-pools.lesson:7.
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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