Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 3
Think of a playground argument: you can toss a coin, or you can ask witnesses what they saw.
Who acts: you, witnesses · What happens: think, toss, ask, see · To what, where: coin, witnesses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» 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, witnesses), 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 argument | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 argument | det |
| 4 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 argument | compound |
| 5 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 toss | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 toss | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 toss | aux |
| 9 | toss | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coin | det |
| 11 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 toss | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 ask | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | aux |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 toss | conj |
| 17 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ask | iobj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 saw | obj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a playground argument | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | toss | can | you | a coin | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | can | you | witnesses | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent witness=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see | past | witnesses = witness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.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 ×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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