Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe, sentence 4
Your tap and your toilet are among the greatest life-savers ever invented, even if no game gives them a wonder.
Who acts: tap, game, Your · What happens: be, invent, give, tap · To what, where: greatest life savers, wonder, taps
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe» 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 (tap, game, Your), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tap | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 savers | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 toilet | cc |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 toilet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tap | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 savers | cop |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 savers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 savers | det |
| 9 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 savers | amod |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 savers | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 life | punct |
| 12 | savers | saver | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 invented | advmod |
| 14 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 savers | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gives | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 gives | advmod |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 gives | mark |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 game | det |
| 19 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gives | nsubj |
| 20 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 invented | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gives | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wonder | det |
| 23 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gives | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 savers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your tap and your toilet | among the greatest life savers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invent | participle | the greatest life savers not said here | ever | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | no game | a wonder | taps = tap | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient wonder=Theme | |||
| 4 | tap | Your | nom tap «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.lesson:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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