Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 2
Think of your school rules pinned on the wall so nobody can say they did not know.
Who acts: you, nobody, people, your · What happens: think, pin, say, not know, rule · To what, where: school rules · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» 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, nobody, people, your), 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 rules | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 rules | nmod:poss |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rules | compound |
| 5 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | pinned | pin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rules | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pinned | obl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 say | advmod |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 say | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | aux |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Think | advcl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 say | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of your school rules | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pin | participle | your school rules not said here | on the wall | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on wall=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | can | nobody | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | rule | your | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:004-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires.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.
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