Lost outdoors, sentence 8
A person who stays still is easier to find than a person who keeps moving.
Who acts: person · What happens: stay, be, find, keep, move
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lost outdoors» 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 (person), 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 easier | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 stays | nsubj |
| 4 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 person | acl:relcl |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stays | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 easier | cop |
| 7 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easier | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 keeps | nsubj |
| 14 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 person | acl:relcl |
| 15 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 keeps | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | stay | present | a person | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a person | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | a person not said here | than a person | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | a person | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | move | gerund | a person not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:049-lost-outdoors.lesson:8.
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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