Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 16
Two light bags, one in each hand, are easier to carry than one heavy bag in one hand.
Who acts: Two light bags · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: one hand
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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 light bags), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 bags | nummod |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bags | compound |
| 3 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 easier | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 bags | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bags | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 easier | cop |
| 11 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 easier | xcomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 bag | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 bag | nummod |
| 16 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bag | amod |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hand | nummod |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Two light bags | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | Two light bags not said here | one hand | than one heavy bag | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location |
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:003-lifting-and-carrying.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/16/