Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 13
Keep snow forts small and open, and never dig tunnels in snow piles by the road, because snow collapses and snowploughs push snow there.
Who acts: you, snow, snowploughs · What happens: keep, not dig, collapse, push · To what, where: snow forts, tunnels, snow piles, snow
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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, snow, snowploughs), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forts | compound |
| 3 | forts | fort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Keep | obj |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 open | cc |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 small | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dig | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dig | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 dig | advmod |
| 10 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Keep | conj |
| 11 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dig | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 piles | case |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piles | compound |
| 14 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tunnels | nmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dig | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 push | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 collapses | mark |
| 20 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 collapses | nsubj |
| 21 | collapses | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 push | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 snowploughs | cc |
| 23 | snowploughs | snowplough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 push | nsubj |
| 24 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dig | conj |
| 25 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 push | obj |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 push | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | snow forts | small property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Theme | |||
| 2 | not dig | infinitive | you not said here | tunnels | snow piles | by the road | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme by road=Location | ||
| 3 | collapse | present | snow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | push | present | snowploughs | snow | there | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=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:234-snow-ice-and-sun.lesson:13.
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, 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.
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