Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 9
Wet sand holds its shape better than dry sand, which is why sandcastles are made of damp sand.
Who acts: Wet sand, dry sand · What happens: hold, be, make · To what, where: shape, sandcastles
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 (Wet sand, dry sand), 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 | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 holds | advmod |
| 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 | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 why | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 why | cop |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 sand | acl:relcl |
| 14 | sandcastles | sandcastle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 why | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sand | case |
| 18 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sand | amod |
| 19 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | 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 | hold | present | Wet sand | sand's shape | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | dry sand | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | sandcastles | of damp sand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:9.
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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