The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 2
Picture a camping trip with no tent from a shop, no matches and no supermarket: you must know which berries are safe, where the deer drink and how to keep a fire alive all night.
Who acts: you, berries, deer · What happens: picture, know, be, drink, keep · To what, where: camping trip, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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, berries, deer), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 trip | det |
| 3 | camping | camping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trip | compound |
| 4 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tent | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 tent | det |
| 7 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trip | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 shop | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shop | det |
| 10 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tent | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 matches | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 matches | det |
| 13 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Picture | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 supermarket | cc |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 supermarket | det |
| 16 | supermarket | supermarket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 matches | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 21 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 22 berries | det |
| 22 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 safe | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 safe | cop |
| 24 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 know | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drink | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 drink | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 deer | det |
| 28 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drink | nsubj |
| 29 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | ccomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 keep | cc |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 keep | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 keep | mark |
| 33 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 drink | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 fire | det |
| 35 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 keep | obj |
| 36 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 keep | xcomp |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 night | det |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 keep | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a camping trip | with no tent from a shop; no matches and no supermarket obl | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent trip=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | must | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | present | which berries | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drink | present | the deer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | the deer not said here | a fire | night | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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:history:001-the-first-people.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 ×2, 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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