Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 8
Old roofs often have skylights and thin panels that break when stepped on, and a fall onto concrete can kill.
Who acts: Old roofs, skylights, fall · What happens: have, break, step on, kill · To what, where: skylights
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 (Old roofs, skylights, fall), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 roofs | amod |
| 2 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | skylights | skylight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 panels | cc |
| 7 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 panels | amod |
| 8 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 skylights | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 break | nsubj |
| 10 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 skylights | acl:relcl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 stepped | advmod |
| 12 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 break | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 stepped | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kill | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kill | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fall | det |
| 17 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kill | nsubj |
| 18 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 19 concrete | case |
| 19 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fall | nmod |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 kill | aux |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Old roofs | skylights and thin panels | often property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skylight=Patient | |||
| 2 | break | present | skylights and thin panels | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | step on | participle | skylights and thin panels not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill | can | a fall onto concrete | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:8.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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