Balancing the scales, sentence 4
Take 2 cubes and 20 g off each side: 3 cubes balance 90 g.
Who acts: you, 3 cubes · What happens: take, balance · To what, where: 2 cubes, side, 90
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 (you, 3 cubes), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 cubes | nummod |
| 3 | cubes | cube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 g | cc |
| 5 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 g | nummod |
| 6 | g | g | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cubes | conj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 cubes | nummod |
| 12 | cubes | cube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 balance | nsubj |
| 13 | balance | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 14 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 balance | obj |
| 15 | g. | g | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 90 | flat |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | 2 cubes and 20 g | each side | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cube=Theme off side=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | balance | present | 3 cubes | 90 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 90=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:186-balance-pans.lesson:4.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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