Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 2
Think of two brothers splitting a bedroom with tape on the floor: if they tape along the bunk bed, it makes sense, but if a parent tapes straight through the middle, one of them may end up with the door and the other with the window.
Who acts: you, two brothers, brothers, border, parent, one · What happens: think, split, tape, make, end up · To what, where: bedroom, sense, middle
This is a sentence of the lesson «Borders: why they are where they are» 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, two brothers, brothers, border), 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 | _ | 4 brothers | case |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Think | obl |
| 5 | splitting | split | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 brothers | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bedroom | det |
| 7 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splitting | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tape | case |
| 9 | tape | tape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splitting | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 floor | det |
| 12 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tape | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 makes | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 tape | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tape | nsubj |
| 16 | tape | tape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 makes | advcl |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bed | det |
| 19 | bunk | bunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bed | compound |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tape | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tape | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 makes | nsubj |
| 23 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 24 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 makes | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tapes | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 tapes | cc |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 tapes | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 parent | det |
| 29 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tapes | nsubj |
| 30 | tapes | tape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 makes | conj |
| 31 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 34 middle | advmod |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 middle | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 middle | det |
| 34 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tapes | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 end | punct |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 end | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 one | nmod |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 end | aux |
| 40 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 end | compound:prt |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 door | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 door | det |
| 44 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 end | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 other | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 other | det |
| 47 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 door | conj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 window | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 window | det |
| 50 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 other | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, 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 two brothers | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | split | gerund | two brothers not said here | a bedroom | with tape on the floor | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bedroom=Patient with tape=Instrument | |||
| 3 | tape a condition, not said to happen | present | brothers = brother | along the bunk bed | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | border | sense | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sense=Product | ||||
| 5 | tape a condition, not said to happen | present | a parent | the middle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | end up | may | one of brothers | with the door | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:geography:031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:2.
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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