Balancing the scales, sentence 0
When the scales balance, both pans weigh the same.
Who acts: scales, pans · What happens: balance, weigh · To what, where: same
This is a sentence of the lesson «Balancing the scales» 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 (scales, pans), 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 | _ | 4 balance | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 scales | det |
| 3 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 balance | nsubj |
| 4 | balance | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 weigh | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weigh | punct |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 pans | det |
| 7 | pans | pan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 weigh | nsubj |
| 8 | weigh | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weigh | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 weigh | 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 | balance | present | the scales | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | weigh | present | both pans | the same | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value |
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:186-balance-pans.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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