The Silk Road, sentence 0
Think of passing a note along a row of desks: nobody walks the whole way, each pupil hands it to the next.
Who acts: you, nobody, pupil · What happens: think, pass, walk, hand · To what, where: note, row, whole way, next
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» 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, nobody, pupil), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 passing | mark |
| 3 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Think | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 note | det |
| 5 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passing | obj |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 row | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 row | det |
| 8 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 desks | case |
| 10 | desks | desk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 row | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 walks | punct |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 walks | nsubj |
| 13 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walks | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 pupil | det |
| 19 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hands | nsubj |
| 20 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 walks | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hands | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 next | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 next | det |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hands | obl |
| 25 | . | . | 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 | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | you not said here | a note | a row of desks | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent note=Theme along row=Destination | |||
| 3 | walk | present | nobody | the whole way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hand | present | each pupil | note | the next | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to next=Destination |
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:028-the-silk-road.lesson:0.
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.
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