Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports, sentence 8
Carry a pencil or scissors pointing down, and walk.
Who acts: you, scissors · What happens: carry, point down, walk · To what, where: pencil
This is a sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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 (you, scissors), 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 | Carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pencil | det |
| 3 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carry | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 scissors | cc |
| 5 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pencil | conj |
| 6 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 scissors | acl |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 pointing | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walk | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walk | cc |
| 10 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Carry | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | a pencil or scissors | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | point down | gerund | scissors not said here | down property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | walk | infinitive | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.lesson:8.
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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