Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 0
Look around a classroom: paper in your exercise book, a compass in the science cupboard, fireworks on New Year's night, printed books on the shelf.
Who acts: you · What happens: look around, print · To what, where: classroom
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» 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), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | around | around | ADV | _ | 1 Look | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 classroom | det |
| 4 | classroom | classroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 paper | punct |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 book | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 book | nmod:poss |
| 9 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 book | compound |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paper | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 compass | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 compass | det |
| 13 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paper | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cupboard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cupboard | det |
| 16 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cupboard | compound |
| 17 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 compass | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fireworks | punct |
| 19 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paper | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 21 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 22 Year | compound |
| 22 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 night | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Year | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fireworks | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 books | punct |
| 26 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 books | amod | |
| 27 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paper | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 shelf | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shelf | det |
| 30 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 books | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | imperative | you not said here | a classroom | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.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): R5-strong ×5, 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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