Working backwards through three steps, sentence 0
To find the start, begin with what is left at the end and undo the steps one by one, from the last to the first.
Who acts: you · What happens: find, begin, leave, undo · To what, where: start, end, steps
This is a sentence of the lesson «Working backwards through three 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 (you), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 begin | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 start | det |
| 4 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 begin | punct |
| 6 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 begin | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 undo | cc |
| 15 | undo | undo | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 begin | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 steps | det |
| 17 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 undo | obj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 steps | flat |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 last | punct |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 last | det |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 undo | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 first | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 first | det |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 last | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | you not said here | the start | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | imperative | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with what=Subeventuality | |||||
| 3 | leave | present · passive | at the end | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: at end=Location | |||||
| 4 | undo | infinitive | you not said here | the steps | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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:172-backwards-three-steps.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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