Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet, sentence 19
Some pictures, like the duck-rabbit, can be seen in two ways, which shows that seeing is partly guessing.
Who acts: two ways, seeing · What happens: see, show, guess · To what, where: pictures, two ways · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» 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 (two ways, seeing), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 pictures | det |
| 2 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rabbit | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 rabbit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rabbit | det |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rabbit | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 duck | punct |
| 8 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pictures | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pictures | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ways | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 ways | nummod |
| 15 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seen | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shows | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shows | nsubj |
| 18 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ways | acl:relcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 guessing | mark |
| 20 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 guessing | csubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 guessing | aux |
| 22 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 23 guessing | advmod |
| 23 | guessing | guess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 shows | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can · passive | some pictures like the duck rabbit | two ways | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | show | present | two ways | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | guess | present · progressive | seeing | partly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:280-illusions-and-adverts.lesson:19.
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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