COVID and staying home, sentence 1
In 2020 it spread across the whole world because nobody's body knew it yet: that is what a pandemic means.
Who acts: it, body, that, pandemic · What happens: spread, know, be, mean · To what, where: 2020, world
This is a sentence of the lesson «COVID and staying home» of the medicine 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 (it, body, that, pandemic), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2020 | case |
| 2 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 spread | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 knew | mark |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 nobody | case |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | obj |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 knew | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 what | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | cop |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 spread | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pandemic | det |
| 21 | pandemic | pandemic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 means | nsubj |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | it | 2020 | across the whole world | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2020=Location | |||
| 2 | know | past | nobody's body | world | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | a pandemic | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:medicine:012-covid-and-staying-home.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.
See the release 0.4.
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