What vitamins do, sentence 6
The story that carrots let British pilots see in the dark was spread in the Second World War, partly to hide the use of radar, machines that found enemy planes with radio waves.
Who acts: carrots, story, use · What happens: let, see, spread, hide, find, use · To what, where: story, dark, Second World War, use, enemy planes, radar
This is a sentence of the lesson «What vitamins do» 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 (carrots, story, use), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 let | obj |
| 4 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 story | acl:relcl |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pilots | amod |
| 7 | pilots | pilot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | obj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dark | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dark | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spread | aux:pass |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 War | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 War | det |
| 16 | Second | Second | PROPN | _ | 18 War | compound |
| 17 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 War | compound |
| 18 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 spread | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 partly | punct |
| 20 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 22 hide | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hide | mark |
| 22 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 spread | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 use | det |
| 24 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hide | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 radar | case |
| 26 | radar | radar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 use | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 machines | punct |
| 28 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 use | conj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 use | acl:relcl |
| 31 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 planes | compound |
| 32 | planes | plane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 found | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 waves | case |
| 34 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 waves | compound |
| 35 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 planes | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 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 | let | infinitive | carrots | the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | the story not said here | the dark | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | spread | past · passive | the story | the Second World War | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in war=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hide | to-infinitive | the use of radar and machines | partly property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient | ||||
| 5 | find | past | the use of radar and machines | enemy planes | with radio waves | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plane=Topic | |||
| 6 | use | radar | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:021-what-vitamins-do.lesson:6.
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, R8-pos-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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