Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals, sentence 1

Thirst means you need water; a simple check is the colour of your wee: pale yellow means you are drinking enough, dark yellow means drink more.

Who acts: Thirst, you, simple check, pale yellow, dark yellow · What happens: mean, need, be, drink · To what, where: water, colour, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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 (Thirst, you, simple check, pale yellow), 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	Thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 colour	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 check	det
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 check	amod
9	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 colour	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 colour	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 colour	det
12	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wee	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wee	nmod:poss
15	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 colour	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
17	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 yellow	amod
18	yellow	yellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	nsubj
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 colour	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 drinking	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 drinking	aux
22	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 means	ccomp
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 drinking	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drink	punct
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 yellow	amod
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 means	nsubj
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 means	parataxis
28	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 means	ccomp
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 drink	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Thirst			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	present	you	water		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
3	is a	present	a simple check	the colour	of your wee	tree rules
4	mean	present	pale yellow			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	drink	present · progressive	you		enough property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	mean	present	dark yellow			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	drink	infinitive		more		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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:009-body-signals.lesson:1.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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