Climbing trees and playgrounds, sentence 9
Dead branches are dry and brittle and can snap without warning.
Who acts: Dead branches · What happens: be, snap
This is a sentence of the lesson «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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 (Dead branches), 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 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 branches | amod |
| 2 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dry | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dry | cop |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brittle | cc |
| 6 | brittle | brittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dry | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 snap | cc |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 snap | aux |
| 9 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dry | conj |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 warning | case |
| 11 | warning | warn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snap | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dry | 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 | Dead branches | dry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Dead branches not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | snap | can | Dead branches not said here | without warning | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:004-climbing.lesson:9.
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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