Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 1
It's a lovely picture, and so are the others: the compass needle pointing straight at Father Christmas's house, the Earth's middle sloshing with lava like a giant soup pot, Greenland on the classroom map as big as all of Africa.
Who acts: way, compass needle, middle · What happens: be, point, slosh · To what, where: lovely picture, others, house
This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» 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 (way, compass needle, middle), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 picture | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 picture | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 picture | det |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 picture | amod |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 others | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 others | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 others | advmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 others | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 others | det |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 picture | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 others | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 needle | det |
| 14 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 needle | compound |
| 15 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 : | obj |
| 16 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 needle | acl |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 house | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 19 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Christmas | compound |
| 20 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Christmas | case |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pointing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 middle | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Earth | det |
| 25 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 middle | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Earth | case |
| 27 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 needle | conj |
| 28 | sloshing | slosh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 middle | acl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 lava | case |
| 30 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sloshing | obl |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 pot | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 pot | det |
| 33 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pot | amod |
| 34 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pot | compound |
| 35 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sloshing | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Greenland | punct |
| 37 | Greenland | Greenland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 pot | appos |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 map | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 map | det |
| 40 | classroom | classroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 map | compound |
| 41 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Greenland | nmod |
| 42 | as | as | ADV | _ | 43 big | advmod |
| 43 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 map | amod |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 all | case |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 big | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Africa | case |
| 47 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 all | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | way | a lovely picture and the others | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | way not said here | the others | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | point | gerund | the compass needle and the Earth's middle not said here | Father Christmas's house | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | slosh | gerund | the Earth's middle not said here | with lava; like a giant soup pot | vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:1.
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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