Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 0
Isaac is sure the pyramids were built by whipped slaves, Leila knows thumbs down meant death in the arena, and Lucy's cartoon shows cavemen riding dinosaurs.
Who acts: Isaac, whipped slaves, Leila, thumbs, cartoon, cavemen · What happens: be, build, whip, know, mean, show · To what, where: pyramids, thumbs, death, cavemen, dinosaurs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» 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 (Isaac, whipped slaves, Leila, thumbs), 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 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pyramids | det |
| 5 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 built | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | aux:pass |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 slaves | case |
| 9 | whipped | whip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 slaves | amod |
| 10 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 built | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knows | punct |
| 12 | Leila | Leila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 knows | nsubj |
| 13 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 14 | thumbs | thumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 knows | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 meant | advmod |
| 16 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thumbs | acl |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meant | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 arena | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 arena | det |
| 20 | arena | arena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meant | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shows | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shows | cc |
| 23 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 cartoon | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Lucy | case |
| 25 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shows | nsubj |
| 26 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 knows | conj |
| 27 | cavemen | caveman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shows | obj |
| 28 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 cavemen | acl |
| 29 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 riding | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Isaac | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | past · passive | whipped slaves | the pyramids | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | whip | participle | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | know | present | Leila | thumbs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thumb=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mean | past | thumbs not said here | death | in the arena; down property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot death=Theme in arena=Attribute | |||
| 6 | show | present | Lucy's cartoon | cavemen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caveman=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | ride | gerund | cavemen not said here | dinosaurs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme | ||||
| 8 | cartoon | Lucy | nom cartoon «communication transitive»: poss=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:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): no change. 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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