Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 2
The myth was convenient, and convenient myths can hide unkindness.
Who acts: myth, convenient myths · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: unkindness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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 (myth, convenient myths), 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 myth | det |
| 2 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 convenient | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 convenient | cop |
| 4 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hide | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hide | cc |
| 7 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 myths | amod |
| 8 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hide | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hide | aux |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 convenient | conj |
| 11 | unkindness | unkindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hide | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 convenient | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the myth | convenient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | can | convenient myths | unkindness | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unkindness=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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:2.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/2/