China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 6
Imagine a hair stretched across a football pitch: very long, too thin to see from far away.
Who acts: you · What happens: imagine, stretch, see · To what, where: hair, football pitch
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hair | det |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hair | acl |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 pitch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pitch | det |
| 7 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pitch | compound |
| 8 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thin | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thin | punct |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 thin | advmod |
| 14 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Imagine | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thin | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 far | case |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 see | advmod |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 far | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | 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 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | a hair | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch | participle | a hair not said here | a football pitch | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across pitch=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:052-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall.lesson:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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