Building and making things safely, sentence 10
Dry sand crumbles, so she wets it, and it holds its shape.
Who acts: Dry sand, girl, sandcastle · What happens: crumble, wet, hold · To what, where: sandcastle, shape
This is a sentence of the lesson «Building and making things safely» 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 (Dry sand, girl, sandcastle), 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 | Dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sand | amod |
| 2 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crumbles | nsubj |
| 3 | crumbles | crumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wets | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 wets | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wets | nsubj |
| 7 | wets | wet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 crumbles | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wets | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 holds | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 holds | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 holds | nsubj |
| 12 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wets | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shape | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holds | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crumbles | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crumble | present | Dry sand | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | wet | present | girl | sandcastle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | present | sandcastle | sandcastle's shape | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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:244-building-and-making-things.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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