Crossing the river with one boat, sentence 0
The boat cannot cross empty, so after every trip across except the last one somebody must row it back.
Who acts: boat, somebody · What happens: not cross, row back · To what, where: boat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Crossing the river with one boat» 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 (boat, somebody), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cross | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cross | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cross | advmod |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cross | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 row | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 row | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 trip | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 trip | det |
| 11 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 row | obl |
| 12 | across | across | ADV | _ | 11 trip | advmod |
| 13 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trip | nmod |
| 17 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 row | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 row | aux |
| 19 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cross | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 row | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 row | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cross | can | the boat | empty property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | row back | must | somebody | boat | after every trip except the last one | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
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:189-boat-crossings.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): 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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