Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 7
Think of Josh and Leo swapping football stickers: Josh has loads of Messi, Leo has loads of Ronaldo, and after the swap both are happier.
Who acts: you, Josh, Leo, both · What happens: think, swap, have, be · To what, where: football stickers, loads
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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, Josh, Leo, both), 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 | _ | 3 Josh | case |
| 3 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Leo | cc |
| 5 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Josh | conj |
| 6 | swapping | swap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Think | advcl |
| 7 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stickers | compound |
| 8 | stickers | sticker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swapping | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 12 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 has | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Messi | case |
| 14 | Messi | Messi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 loads | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 16 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | conj |
| 18 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 has | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ronaldo | case |
| 20 | Ronaldo | Ronaldo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 loads | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 happier | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 happier | cc |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 swap | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 swap | det |
| 25 | swap | swap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 happier | obl |
| 26 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 happier | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 happier | cop |
| 28 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of Josh and Leo | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swap | gerund | you not said here | football stickers | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sticker=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Josh | loads of Messi | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Leo | loads of Ronaldo | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | both | after the swap | happy 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:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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