Accidents told too late, sentence 18
A spill or stain is much easier to clean while it is fresh than after it has dried.
Who acts: spill, accident · What happens: be, clean, dry
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents told too late» 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 (spill, accident), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spill | det |
| 2 | spill | spill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 easier | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 stain | cc |
| 4 | stain | stain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spill | conj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 easier | cop |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 easier | advmod |
| 7 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 clean | mark |
| 9 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easier | ccomp |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 fresh | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fresh | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fresh | cop |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 easier | advcl |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 dried | mark |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 dried | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dried | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dried | aux |
| 18 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 easier | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a spill or stain | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | clean | to-infinitive | a spill or stain not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | accident | fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dry | present · perfect | accident | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:343-accidents-told-too-late.lesson:18.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.
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