Earth from space, sentence 0
Mr Hughes taps the board, very sure: "The Great Wall of China is the ONLY man-made thing you can see from space!" It's in quiz books, it sounds grand, and it began before anyone had even been to space.
Who acts: Mr, Great Wall, you, Wall, anyone · What happens: tap, make, be, see, sound, begin · To what, where: board, ONLY made thing, space, quiz books · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» 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 (Mr, Great Wall, you, Wall), 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 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 taps | nsubj |
| 2 | Hughes | Hughes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr | flat |
| 3 | taps | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 board | det |
| 5 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taps | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 sure | advmod |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 taps | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 thing | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wall | det |
| 12 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wall | flat |
| 13 | Wall | Wall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 thing | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 China | case |
| 15 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wall | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 thing | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 18 | ONLY | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thing | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taps | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 thing | acl:relcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 space | case |
| 27 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 30 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 books | nsubj |
| 31 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 books | cop |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 books | case |
| 33 | quiz | quiz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 books | compound |
| 34 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 taps | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sounds | punct |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sounds | nsubj |
| 37 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 taps | conj |
| 38 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sounds | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 began | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 began | cc |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 began | nsubj |
| 42 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taps | conj |
| 43 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 45 had | mark |
| 44 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 had | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 began | advcl |
| 46 | even | even | ADV | _ | 49 space | advmod |
| 47 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 space | cop |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 space | case |
| 49 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 had | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tap | present | Mr | the board | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the Great Wall of China | the ONLY made thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | can | you | the ONLY made thing not said here | space | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | present | Wall | quiz books | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sound | present | Wall | grand property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | begin | past | Wall | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | have | past | anyone | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is | participle | to space | 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:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-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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