The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines, sentence 6
The snow was real; the size of the words was not.
Who acts: snow, size · What happens: be, not be
This is a sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» 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 (snow, size), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 snow | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 real | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 size | det |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 size | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 was | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the snow | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | past | the size of the words | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.lesson:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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