Eyes, backs and thumbs, sentence 7
Theo thought playing in the pitch dark was cooler, like a cinema.
Who acts: Theo, playing · What happens: think, play, be · To what, where: pitch dark · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Theo, playing), 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 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 cooler | csubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dark | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dark | det |
| 6 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dark | compound |
| 7 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 playing | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cooler | cop |
| 9 | cooler | cool | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cinema | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 cinema | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cinema | det |
| 13 | cinema | cinema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cooler | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Theo | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | play | gerund | the pitch dark | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | playing | like a cinema; cool property | tree rules |
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:7.
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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