Exam 3: heads, and a difference of legs, sentence 1

Suppose all the heads were chickens: the chickens' legs would be ahead by 2 × heads.

Who acts: you, heads, legs · What happens: suppose, be · To what, where: chickens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Exam 3: heads, and a difference of legs» 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, heads, legs), 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	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 heads	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heads	det
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chickens	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chickens	cop
6	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Suppose	ccomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 ahead	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chickens	det
9	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 legs	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 chickens	case
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ahead	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ahead	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 ahead	cop
14	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	1 Suppose	parataxis
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 heads	case
16	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 heads	nummod
17	×	×	SYM	_	18 heads	compound
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ahead	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	all heads	chickens		tree rules
3	is	would	the chickens's legs		by 2 × heads; ahead property	tree rules

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:200-heads-and-a-difference-of-legs.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): 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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