Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 3

Think of moving a fridge across a sandy beach: you would put it on a sledge and wet the sand so it slides.

Who acts: you, sand · What happens: think, move, put, wet, slide · To what, where: fridge, sandy beach, sledge, sand

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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, sand), 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	SCONJ	_	3 moving	mark
3	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Think	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fridge	det
5	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moving	obj
6	across	across	ADP	_	9 beach	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beach	det
8	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beach	amod
9	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moving	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Think	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 sledge	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sledge	det
17	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wet	cc
19	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 put	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sand	det
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wet	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 slides	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 slides	nsubj
24	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 put	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	move	gerund	you not said here	a fridge	a sandy beach	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fridge=Theme across beach=Trajectory
3	put	would	you	fridge	a sledge	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on sledge=Destination
4	wet	infinitive	you not said here	the sand		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sand=Patient
5	slide	present	sand			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:3.

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 ×2. 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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