Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 16
A body needs running about every day as much as a brain likes games.
Who acts: body, brain · What happens: need, run about, like · To what, where: much, games
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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 (body, brain), 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 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 needs | xcomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 day | advmod |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 running | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 likes | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 brain | det |
| 12 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 likes | nsubj |
| 13 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 much | advcl |
| 14 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 likes | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a body | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run about not said to happen | gerund | a body not said here | much | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | like | present | a brain | games | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:16.
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): 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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