Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 7
When you read an old book, look for the old world inside it: it is like a time machine with jokes.
Who acts: you, book · What happens: read, look, be · To what, where: old book, book
This is a sentence of the lesson «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» 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, book), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 read | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | advcl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 book | amod |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 world | amod |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 machine | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 machine | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 machine | cop |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 machine | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 machine | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 machine | compound |
| 21 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | parataxis |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 jokes | case |
| 23 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 machine | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | you | a old book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | imperative | you not said here | book | for the old world | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for world=Theme inside it=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | book | like a time machine; with jokes | 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:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.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): R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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