Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 0
Grandad Ray in Leeds pegs a washing line across the garden: «Right, our kid, every metre is a thousand years» (our kid means little brother or sister in the North of England).
Who acts: Grandad Ray, kid · What happens: peg, be, mean · To what, where: washing line, garden, thousand years, little brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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 (Grandad Ray, kid), 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 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ray | compound |
| 2 | Ray | Ray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pegs | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ray | nmod |
| 5 | pegs | peg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 line | det |
| 7 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 line | compound |
| 8 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pegs | obj |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pegs | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 years | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 years | punct |
| 14 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 24 years | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kid | punct |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kid | nmod:poss |
| 17 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 years | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 metre | punct |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 metre | det |
| 20 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kid | conj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 years | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 years | det |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pegs | parataxis |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 years | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 means | punct |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 kid | nmod:poss |
| 28 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | nsubj |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 years | parataxis |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 brother | amod |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | obj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 sister | cc |
| 33 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brother | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 North | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 North | det |
| 36 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 brother | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 England | case |
| 38 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 North | nmod |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 means | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pegs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peg | present | Grandad Ray in Leeds | a washing line | the garden | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent line=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | our kid and every metre | a thousand years | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | our kid | little brother or sister | in the North of England | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme in north=Attribute |
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:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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