Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 14
Never stand under icicles or knock them down, because they are heavy and sharp.
Who acts: you, Snow · What happens: not stand, knock down, be · To what, where: icicles, 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), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 stand | advmod |
| 2 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 icicles | case |
| 4 | icicles | icicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stand | obl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 knock | cc |
| 6 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 stand | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knock | obj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 knock | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 heavy | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heavy | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heavy | cop |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knock | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sharp | cc |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heavy | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | imperative | you not said here | icicles | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under icicle=Location | ||||
| 2 | knock down | infinitive | you not said here | Snow | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Snow | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Snow not said here | tree rules |
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:14.
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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