From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 11
Many countries are young: Giulia's nonna, Italian for grandma, jokes that Italy is younger than her favourite cathedral.
Who acts: Many countries, Italy · What happens: be
This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 (Many countries, Italy), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 countries | amod |
| 2 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 young | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 nonna | punct |
| 6 | Giulia | Giulia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nonna | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Giulia | case |
| 8 | nonna | nonna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 young | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Italian | punct |
| 10 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nonna | appos |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 grandma | case |
| 12 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Italian | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jokes | punct |
| 14 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nonna | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 younger | mark |
| 16 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 younger | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 younger | cop |
| 18 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 jokes | ccomp |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 cathedral | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cathedral | nmod:poss |
| 21 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cathedral | amod |
| 22 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 younger | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many countries | Giulia's nonna jokes obl; young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Italy | than Italy's favourite cathedral; young property | tree rules |
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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:11.
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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