Building and making things safely, sentence 21
Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand; never throw sand, because it hurts and scratches eyes.
Who acts: Wet sand, glue · What happens: hold, not throw, hurt, scratch · To what, where: shape, sand, eyes
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 (Wet sand, glue), 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 | Wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sand | amod |
| 2 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | nsubj |
| 3 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shape | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | obj |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 holds | ccomp |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 sand | case |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sand | amod |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 better | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 throw | punct |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 throw | advmod |
| 12 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 holds | parataxis |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 throw | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 hurts | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hurts | nsubj |
| 17 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 throw | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 scratches | cc |
| 19 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hurts | conj |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scratches | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Wet sand | glue's shape | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not throw | infinitive | sand | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hurt | present | glue | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | scratch | present | glue not said here | eyes | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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:21.
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, R7-rel-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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