Crossing the river with one boat, sentence 1
So each trip there and back moves one fewer than the boat holds; the last trip across takes a full boat.
Who acts: trip, boat, last trip · What happens: move, hold, take · To what, where: fewer, full 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 (trip, boat, last trip), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 moves | advmod |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 trip | det |
| 3 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moves | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 trip | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 back | cc |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 there | conj |
| 7 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 fewer | obl |
| 9 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 moves | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 holds | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holds | nsubj |
| 13 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fewer | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 moves | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trip | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trip | amod |
| 17 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 takes | nsubj |
| 18 | across | across | ADV | _ | 17 trip | advmod |
| 19 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 moves | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boat | det |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 boat | amod |
| 22 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 takes | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | each trip | fewer | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent few=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | the boat | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | present | the last trip | a full boat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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:189-boat-crossings.lesson:1.
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 ×2, 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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