Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts, sentence 7
When a friend clings to a story, a surprising fact or a quick look at a globe works better than "you're wrong": "Did you know we're nearer the Sun in January?"
Who acts: friend, surprising fact, you, we · What happens: cling, work, be, know · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friend, surprising fact, you, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 clings | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clings | nsubj |
| 4 | clings | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 works | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clings | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fact | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fact | det |
| 10 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fact | amod |
| 11 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 works | nsubj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 look | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 look | det |
| 14 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | amod |
| 15 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fact | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 globe | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 globe | det |
| 18 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | nmod |
| 19 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 works | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 wrong | mark |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 wrong | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 wrong | nsubj |
| 24 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 wrong | cop |
| 25 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 works | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 wrong | punct |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 29 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 know | aux |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 works | parataxis |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 nearer | nsubj |
| 33 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 nearer | cop |
| 34 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 know | ccomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Sun | det |
| 36 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 nearer | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 January | case |
| 38 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 nearer | obl |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 works | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 works | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- offer
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | present | a friend | to a story | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to story=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | present | a surprising fact or a quick look at a globe | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | we | january | near property | 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:017-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts.lesson:7.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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