Inside the Earth, sentence 2
Think of a Scotch egg cut in half at a picnic: the breadcrumb crust is thin, the sausage meat is thick, and the yolk sits in the centre; the real crust is far thinner than the breadcrumbs compared with the whole.
Who acts: you, breadcrumb crust, sausage meat, yolk, real crust · What happens: think, cut, be, sit, compare · To what, where: Scotch egg, half, centre, breadcrumbs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» 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, breadcrumb crust, sausage meat, yolk), 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 egg | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 egg | det |
| 4 | Scotch | Scotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 egg | compound |
| 5 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 egg | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 half | case |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 cut | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 picnic | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 picnic | det |
| 11 | picnic | picnic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 thin | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 crust | det |
| 14 | breadcrumb | breadcrumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crust | compound |
| 15 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thin | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thin | cop |
| 17 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thick | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meat | det |
| 20 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meat | compound |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thick | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 thick | cop |
| 23 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thin | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sits | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sits | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 yolk | det |
| 27 | yolk | yolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sits | nsubj |
| 28 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 thick | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 centre | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 centre | det |
| 31 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sits | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 thinner | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 crust | det |
| 34 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 crust | amod |
| 35 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 thinner | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 thinner | cop |
| 37 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 thinner | advmod |
| 38 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 41 breadcrumbs | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 breadcrumbs | det |
| 41 | breadcrumbs | breadcrumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 thinner | obl |
| 42 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 breadcrumbs | acl |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 whole | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 whole | det |
| 45 | whole | whole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 compared | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a Scotch egg | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cut | participle | a Scotch egg not said here | half | at a picnic | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at picnic=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | the breadcrumb crust | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the sausage meat | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit | present | the yolk | the centre | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the real crust | than the breadcrumbs; far, thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | compare | participle | the breadcrumbs not said here | with the whole | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with whole=Co-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:041-inside-the-earth.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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