Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 15
Do not eat yellow, grey or dirty snow, and ask before eating any, because snow can contain dirt, animal pee and road salt.
Who acts: you, snow · What happens: not eat, ask, eat, contain · To what, where: yellow snow, any, dirt
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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 eat | advmod |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 snow | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grey | punct |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yellow | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 dirty | cc |
| 8 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yellow | conj |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ask | cc |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | conj |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 eating | mark |
| 14 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ask | advcl |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 eating | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 contain | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 contain | mark |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 contain | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 contain | aux |
| 20 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | advcl |
| 21 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 contain | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pee | punct |
| 23 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pee | compound |
| 24 | pee | pee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dirt | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 salt | cc |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 salt | compound |
| 27 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dirt | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | imperative · do-support | you not said here | yellow snow | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | you not said here | any | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | ||||
| 4 | contain | can | snow | dirt and animal pee and road salt | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dirt=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:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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