Exam 3: heads, and a difference of legs, sentence 2

Each time one chicken becomes a rabbit, the chickens lose 2 legs and the rabbits gain 4, so the difference moves by 2 + 4 = 6.

Who acts: one chicken, chickens, rabbits, difference · What happens: become, lose, gain, move · To what, where: rabbit, 2 legs, 4

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 (one chicken, chickens, rabbits, difference), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 becomes	obl:unmarked
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 chicken	nummod
4	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 becomes	nsubj
5	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rabbit	det
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 becomes	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lose	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chickens	det
10	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lose	nsubj
11	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 becomes	conj
12	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 legs	nummod
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lose	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gain	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rabbits	det
16	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gain	nsubj
17	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lose	conj
18	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 gain	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 moves	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 moves	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 difference	det
22	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 moves	nsubj
23	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lose	parataxis
24	by	by	ADP	_	29 6	case
25	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 6	nummod
26	+	+	SYM	_	25 2	flat
27	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 2	flat
28	=	=	SYM	_	29 6	flat
29	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 moves	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	one chicken	a rabbit	time		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	lose	present	the chickens	2 legs			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality
3	gain	present	the rabbits	4			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Theme
4	move	present	the difference			by 2 = 6	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by 6=Trajectory

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:2.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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