Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 23
A hammer that misses the nail often hits the finger holding it, which is why you start with light taps.
Who acts: hammer, finger, you · What happens: miss, hit, hold, be, start · To what, where: nail, finger
This is a sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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 (hammer, finger, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hammer | det |
| 2 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hits | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 misses | nsubj |
| 4 | misses | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hammer | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nail | det |
| 6 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 misses | obj |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 hits | advmod |
| 8 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 finger | det |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hits | obj |
| 11 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 finger | acl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 holding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 why | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 why | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 why | cop |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 start | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 start | nsubj |
| 18 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hits | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 taps | case |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taps | compound |
| 21 | taps | tap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 start | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hits | 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 | miss | present | a hammer | the nail | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nail=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hit | present | a hammer | the finger | often property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme finger=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | hold | gerund | the finger not said here | nail | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | start | present | you | with light taps | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tap=Subeventuality |
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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:23.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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