Wasting food and water, sentence 17
At a buffet, taking a little and going back for more wastes less than piling up a full plate.
Who acts: taking · What happens: take, go back, waste, pile up · To what, where: little, buffet, full plate
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» 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 (taking), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 buffet | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 buffet | det |
| 3 | buffet | buffet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 buffet | punct |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wastes | csubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 taking | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 going | cc |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 taking | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 more | case |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 going | obl |
| 13 | wastes | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 wastes | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 piling | mark |
| 16 | piling | pile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 wastes | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 piling | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 plate | det |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 plate | amod |
| 20 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piling | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wastes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | a little | a buffet | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent little=Theme at buffet=Asset | ||||
| 2 | go back | gerund | for more | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | waste | present | taking | less property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pile up | gerund | taking not said here | a full plate | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=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:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:17.
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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