Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 15
Our brain can be fooled by what surrounds a shape, so measuring gives the true answer.
What happens: fool, surround, measure, give · To what, where: brain, shape, true answer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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: 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brain | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fooled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fooled | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fooled | aux:pass |
| 5 | fooled | fool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 surrounds | mark |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 surrounds | nsubj |
| 8 | surrounds | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fooled | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shape | det |
| 10 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surrounds | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gives | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 gives | advmod |
| 13 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 gives | nsubj |
| 14 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 surrounds | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 answer | det |
| 16 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 answer | amod |
| 17 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gives | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fooled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | can · passive | Our brain | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | surround | present | a shape | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shape=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | measure | gerund | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | give | present | the true answer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:15.
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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