Breakfast before a match and food after, sentence 3
A small light snack such as a banana is far better than nothing, and far better than a greasy fry-up.
Who acts: small light snack · What happens: be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast before a match and food after» 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 (small light snack), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 snack | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snack | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snack | compound |
| 4 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 better | nsubj |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 banana | case |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 such | fixed |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 banana | det |
| 8 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snack | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 better | cop |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 better | advmod |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 better | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 better | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 better | cc |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 better | advmod |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 better | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 up | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 up | det |
| 20 | greasy | greasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 up | amod |
| 21 | fry | fry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 up | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fry | punct |
| 23 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 better | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a small light snack such a banana | than nothing; far, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a small light snack such a banana not said here | than a greasy fry up; far 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:medicine:053-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after.lesson:3.
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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