Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 8
Pull the plug in your sink five times, balance an egg on an ordinary Tuesday, leave salty water in the sun, stir cornflour and water into gloop: the world answers for itself.
Who acts: you, world · What happens: pull, balance, leave, stir, answer · To what, where: plug, sink, egg, salty water, sun, cornflour
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, world), 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 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plug | det |
| 3 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sink | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sink | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sink | sink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obl |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pull | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 balance | punct |
| 10 | balance | balance | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pull | conj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 egg | det |
| 12 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 balance | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Tuesday | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Tuesday | det |
| 15 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Tuesday | amod |
| 16 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 balance | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leave | punct |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pull | conj |
| 19 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 water | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sun | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stir | punct |
| 25 | stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pull | conj |
| 26 | cornflour | cornflour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stir | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 water | cc |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cornflour | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 gloop | case |
| 30 | gloop | gloop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stir | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 answers | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 answers | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 answers | nsubj |
| 34 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pull | parataxis |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 itself | case |
| 36 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 34 answers | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | the plug | your sink | time | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme | ||
| 2 | balance | infinitive | you not said here | a egg | tuesday | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | salty water | the sun | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in sun=Location | |||
| 4 | stir | infinitive | you not said here | cornflour and water | into gloop | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cornflour=Patient into gloop=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | present | world | for world | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R6-punct-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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