Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 20

With patience you can balance an egg on its end on any day of the year; the "only on the equinox" story was spread by a newspaper story in 1945.

Who acts: you, newspaper story · What happens: balance, spread · To what, where: egg, end, equinox story, 1945

This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» 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 (you, newspaper story), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 patience	case
2	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 balance	obl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 balance	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 balance	aux
5	balance	balance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 egg	det
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 balance	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 end	nmod:poss
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 balance	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 balance	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 year	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 year	det
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 spread	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 story	det
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 equinox	punct
20	only	only	ADV	_	23 equinox	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 equinox	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 equinox	det
23	equinox	equinox	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 story	compound
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 equinox	punct
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spread	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spread	aux:pass
27	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 balance	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 story	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 story	det
30	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 story	compound
31	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spread	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 1945	case
33	1945	1945	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 spread	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 balance	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	balance	can	you	a egg			on egg's end; day	with patience	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on end=Location
2	spread	past · passive	a newspaper story	the equinox story		1945			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1945=Destination

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:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:20.

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 ×2, 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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