Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 10
No chemical exists that turns pool water red around someone who wees; the story is told to stop children doing it, and weeing in a pool is still unclean and unfair on other swimmers.
Who acts: chemical, story, weeing · What happens: exist, turn, wee, tell, stop, do · To what, where: pool water, someone, story, children, pool, other swimmers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» 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 (chemical, story, weeing), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 chemical | det |
| 2 | chemical | chemical | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exists | nsubj |
| 3 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 turns | nsubj |
| 5 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chemical | acl:relcl |
| 6 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | compound |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | obj |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 turns | xcomp |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 someone | case |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 turns | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wees | nsubj |
| 12 | wees | wee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 someone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | aux:pass |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 exists | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 stop | mark |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 told | xcomp |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stop | obj |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 stop | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 unclean | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 weeing | cc |
| 25 | weeing | wee | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 unclean | csubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 pool | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 pool | det |
| 28 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 weeing | obl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 unclean | cop |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 unclean | advmod |
| 31 | unclean | unclean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 told | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 unfair | cc |
| 33 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 unclean | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 swimmers | case |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 swimmers | amod |
| 36 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 unfair | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exists | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | no chemical | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | present | no chemical | pool water | someone | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme around someone=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | wee | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the story not said here | children | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | gerund | the story not said here | story | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | wee | gerund | a pool | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is | present | weeing | still | unclean property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | be | weeing not said here | other swimmers | 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:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:10.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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