Earthquakes, sentence 1
Bend a ruler between your hands: it bends and bends, then snaps, and your hands jump; the rocks store energy the same way and release it in seconds.
Who acts: you, ruler, hands, rocks · What happens: bend, snap, jump, store, release · To what, where: ruler, hands, energy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» 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, ruler, hands, rocks), 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 | Bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ruler | det |
| 3 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bend | obj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bend | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 bends | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bends | nsubj |
| 9 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bend | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bends | cc |
| 11 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bends | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 snaps | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 snaps | advmod |
| 14 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bends | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 jump | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 jump | cc |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 jump | nsubj |
| 19 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bends | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 way | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rocks | det |
| 22 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 store | nsubj |
| 23 | store | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bend | parataxis |
| 24 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 store | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 way | amod |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 store | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 release | cc |
| 29 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 store | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 release | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 seconds | case |
| 32 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 release | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | imperative | you not said here | a ruler | your hands | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent ruler=Theme between hand=Location | |||
| 2 | bend | present | ruler | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bend | present | ruler not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | snap | present | ruler not said here | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | jump | present | your hands | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | store | present | the rocks | energy | the same way obl:unmarked | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | |||
| 7 | release | present | the rocks not said here | energy | second | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source |
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:044-earthquakes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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