Time, routines and sleep, sentence 21
A big task is easier when it is broken into smaller parts done over several days.
Who acts: big task · What happens: be, break, do over · To what, where: task, smaller parts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Time, routines and sleep» 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 (big task), 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 | 3 task | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 task | amod |
| 3 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 easier | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easier | cop |
| 5 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 broken | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | aux:pass |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 easier | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 parts | case |
| 11 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 parts | amod |
| 12 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 broken | obl |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 parts | acl |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 done | advmod |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 days | amod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 done | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easier | 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 | is | present | a big task | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | present · passive | task | into smaller parts result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into part=Result | ||||
| 3 | do over | participle | smaller parts not said here | day | over property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:039-time-and-routines.lesson:21.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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