Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 3
How you sit matters as much as how long you sit.
Who acts: you · What happens: sit, matter
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 (you), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 sit | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 matters | csubj |
| 4 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 matters | advcl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 sit | mark |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 sit | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sit | nsubj |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 much | advcl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | matter | present | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | sit | present | you | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «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:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs.lesson:3.
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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