The library and books, sentence 18
Tall shelves can tip if climbed, so use the step stool or ask the librarian.
Who acts: Tall shelves · What happens: tip, climb, use, ask · To what, where: step stool, librarian
This is a sentence of the lesson «The library and books» 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 (Tall shelves), 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 | Tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shelves | amod |
| 2 | shelves | shelf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tip | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tip | aux |
| 4 | tip | tip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 climbed | mark |
| 6 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tip | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 use | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 use | advmod |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 tip | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stool | det |
| 11 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stool | compound |
| 12 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 use | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 use | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 librarian | det |
| 16 | librarian | librarian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tip | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip | can | Tall shelves | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | climb a condition, not said to happen | participle | Tall shelves not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | infinitive | the step stool | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stool=Patient | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the librarian | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent librarian=Recipient |
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:259-library-and-books.lesson:18.
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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