Catching up, sentence 0
When a faster traveller chases a slower one going the same way, the gap shrinks by the difference of the speeds every hour.
Who acts: faster traveller, slower one, gap · What happens: chase, go, shrink · To what, where: slower one, same way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Catching up» 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 (faster traveller, slower one, gap), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 chases | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 traveller | det |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 traveller | amod |
| 4 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chases | nsubj |
| 5 | chases | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 shrinks | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chases | obj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 one | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shrinks | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gap | det |
| 15 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shrinks | nsubj |
| 16 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 difference | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 difference | det |
| 19 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shrinks | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 speeds | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 speeds | det |
| 22 | speeds | speed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 difference | nmod |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 hour | det |
| 24 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shrinks | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 shrinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | a faster traveller | a slower one | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | a slower one not said here | the same way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shrink | present | the gap | hour | by the difference of the speeds | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:164-catching-up.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): no change. 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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