Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 6
In the Müller-Lyer illusion, two equal lines look different lengths because of the arrow ends; a ruler shows the truth.
Who acts: two equal lines, ruler · What happens: look, show · To what, where: different lengths, Lyer illusion, truth
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: who acts (two equal lines, ruler), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 illusion | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 illusion | det |
| 3 | Müller | Müller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lyer | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Müller | punct |
| 5 | Lyer | Lyer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 illusion | compound |
| 6 | illusion | illusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 illusion | punct |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 lines | nummod |
| 9 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lines | amod |
| 10 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 look | nsubj |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lengths | amod |
| 13 | lengths | length | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 look | obj |
| 14 | because | because | ADP | _ | 18 ends | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 because | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 arrow | det |
| 17 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ends | compound |
| 18 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 look | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 shows | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ruler | det |
| 21 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shows | nsubj |
| 22 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 truth | det |
| 24 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shows | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | 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 | look | present | two equal lines | different lengths | the Lyer illusion | because arrow ends | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme length=Attribute | ||
| 2 | show | present | a ruler | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
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:6.
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 ×1. 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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