Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 5

Tombstoning means jumping from piers, cliffs or bridges into water; tides change the depth, and hidden rocks or rubbish lie under the surface.

Who acts: Tombstoning, tides, hidden rocks · What happens: mean, jump, change, lie · To what, where: piers, depth, surface · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» 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 (Tombstoning, tides, hidden rocks), 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	Tombstoning	Tombstoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 piers	case
5	piers	pier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jumping	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cliffs	punct
7	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 piers	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 bridges	cc
9	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 piers	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumping	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 change	punct
13	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 change	nsubj
14	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 depth	det
16	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 change	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lie	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lie	cc
19	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rocks	amod
20	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lie	nsubj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 rubbish	cc
22	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rocks	conj
23	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 change	conj
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 surface	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 surface	det
26	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lie	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Tombstoning				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	jump	gerund			piers and cliffs or bridges	into water result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result
3	change	present	tides	the depth			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Patient
4	lie	present	hidden rocks or rubbish		the surface		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under surface=Location

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:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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