Eyes, nose and using the toilet, sentence 7
Carrots are healthy for the eyes but do not give night vision; that story came from wartime propaganda, a made-up story spread on purpose during a war.
Who acts: Carrots, story · What happens: be, not give, come, make up, spread · To what, where: night vision, wartime propaganda, made story, purpose
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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 (Carrots, story), 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 | Carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 healthy | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 healthy | cop |
| 3 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 healthy | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 give | advmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 healthy | conj |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vision | compound |
| 12 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 healthy | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 propaganda | case |
| 18 | wartime | wartime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 propaganda | amod |
| 19 | propaganda | propaganda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 propaganda | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 story | det |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 story | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 made | compound:prt |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 propaganda | appos |
| 26 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 story | acl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 purpose | case |
| 28 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spread | obl |
| 29 | during | during | ADP | _ | 31 war | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 war | det |
| 31 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spread | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 healthy | 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 | Carrots | for the eyes; healthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not give | present · do-support | Carrots not said here | night vision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | that story | wartime propaganda | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from propaganda=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | spread | participle | a made story not said here | purpose | during a war | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location |
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:078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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