Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 13
A contraction squeezes two words into one with an apostrophe, like could've for could have.
Who acts: contraction · What happens: squeeze, have · To what, where: two words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being words» 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 (contraction), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 contraction | det |
| 2 | contraction | contraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeezes | nsubj |
| 3 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 words | nummod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 squeezes | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 squeezes | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 apostrophe | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 apostrophe | det |
| 10 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 could | punct |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 could | mark |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 squeezes | conj |
| 14 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 could | aux |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 've | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squeezes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | present | a contraction | two words | into one with a apostrophe | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent word=Material into one=Product | |||
| 2 | have | could | a contraction not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:13.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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