Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 6
Think of a garden hose bent round a flower bed: cut a straight path across instead and the water arrives much sooner.
Who acts: you, water · What happens: think, bend, cut, arrive · To what, where: garden hose, flower bed, straight path
This is a sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography 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, water), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hose | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hose | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hose | compound |
| 5 | hose | hose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hose | acl |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 9 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bed | compound |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 path | det |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 path | amod |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 16 | across | across | ADV | _ | 12 cut | advmod |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 12 cut | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 arrives | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrives | nsubj |
| 21 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cut | conj |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 sooner | advmod |
| 23 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 arrives | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a garden hose | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bend | participle | a garden hose not said here | a flower bed | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | a straight path | across, instead property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset path=Product | ||||
| 4 | arrive | present | the water | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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:geography:020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.lesson:6.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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