Cuts and pieces, sentence 0
Cutting a log or a ribbon into pieces always takes one cut fewer than the number of pieces: the last piece needs no cut.
Who acts: Cutting, last piece · What happens: cut, take, need · To what, where: log, pieces, one cut, cut
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cuts and pieces» 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 (Cutting, last piece), 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 | Cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 takes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 log | det |
| 3 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cutting | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 ribbon | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ribbon | det |
| 6 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 log | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 pieces | case |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cutting | obl |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | _ | 10 takes | advmod |
| 10 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 cut | nummod |
| 12 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 takes | obj |
| 13 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 takes | obj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 number | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 number | det |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fewer | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pieces | case |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 number | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 takes | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 piece | det |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 piece | amod |
| 22 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 needs | nsubj |
| 23 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 takes | parataxis |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 cut | det |
| 25 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 needs | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | gerund | a log or a ribbon | pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into piece=Product | ||||
| 2 | take | present | Cutting | one cut | always property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cut=Theme few=Destination | |||
| 3 | need | present | the last piece | no cut | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cut=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:lessons:185-cuts-and-pieces.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 ×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.
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