Copying and peeking in tests, sentence 14
He made a smaller, wobblier tower by himself — and was prouder of it than of the perfect one.
Who acts: console · What happens: make, be · To what, where: smaller wobblier tower
This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying and peeking in tests» 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 (console), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tower | det |
| 4 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 tower | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wobblier | punct |
| 6 | wobblier | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 tower | amod |
| 7 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 made | obl |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 prouder | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prouder | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 prouder | cop |
| 13 | prouder | proud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 made | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 prouder | obl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prouder | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | console | a smaller wobblier tower | by console | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Product | |||
| 2 | is | past | console not said here | of tower; than the perfect one; proud property | tree rules |
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:340-copying-and-peeking-in-tests.lesson:14.
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): R5-strong ×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.
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