Yards, feet and inches in two steps, sentence 2
A rope 4 yards long is 12 feet; cutting off 5 feet leaves 7 feet, and 7 feet are 7 × 12 = 84 inches.
Who acts: rope, cutting, 7 × · What happens: be, cut off, leave, inch · To what, where: 12 feet, 5 feet, 7 feet, 7 ×
This is a sentence of the lesson «Yards, feet and inches in two steps» of the lessons 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 (rope, cutting, 7 ×), 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 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feet | nsubj |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 yards | nummod |
| 4 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 long | obl |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 feet | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feet | cop |
| 7 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 feet | nummod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leaves | parataxis |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaves | punct |
| 10 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 leaves | csubj |
| 11 | off | off | ADV | _ | 10 cutting | compound:prt |
| 12 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cutting | obj |
| 14 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 feet | nummod |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leaves | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 inches | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 inches | cc |
| 19 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 feet | nummod |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 × | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 × | cop |
| 22 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 × | nummod |
| 23 | × | × | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 inches | nsubj |
| 24 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 inches | nummod |
| 25 | = | = | SYM | _ | 26 84 | case |
| 26 | 84 | 84 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 inches | nummod |
| 27 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leaves | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a rope | 12 feet | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cut off | gerund | 5 feet | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector foot=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | leave | present | cutting | 7 feet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | 7 × | 7 feet nmod:unmarked | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | inch | 7 × | 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:lessons:100-two-step-measures.lesson:2.
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. 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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