Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 8

In "She quickly ate the green apple", green is the adjective (it describes the apple) and quickly is the adverb (it says how she ate).

Who acts: cat, green · What happens: eat, be, describe, say · To what, where: green apple, adjective, apple · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 (cat, green), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 ate	mark
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 apple	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 apple	amod
8	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 adjective	punct
11	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 adjective	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 adjective	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 adjective	det
14	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	parataxis
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 describes	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 describes	nsubj
17	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 apple	det
19	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 describes	obj
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 describes	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 quickly	cc
22	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 quickly	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 adverb	det
25	adverb	adverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 says	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 says	nsubj
28	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 ate	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ate	nsubj
31	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 says	ccomp
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 says	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	cat	the green apple	quickly property	tree rules
2	is a	present	green	the adjective		tree rules
3	describe	present	green	the apple		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent apple=Theme
4	is	present			quickly property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present	green			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	eat	past	cat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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