Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wheels, sentence 1
If every head belonged to a chicken, there would be 2 legs per head.
Who acts: head, 2 legs · What happens: belong, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wheels» 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 (head, 2 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 belonged | mark |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 head | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belonged | nsubj |
| 4 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 chicken | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chicken | det |
| 7 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belonged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 belonged | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 be | expl |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 legs | nummod |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 be | nsubj |
| 14 | per | per | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 legs | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 be | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong a condition, not said to happen | past | every head | to a chicken | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | would | 2 legs per head | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:210-counting-back-from-legs-and-wheels.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): 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.
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