Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 4
But a dropped penny can't kill, there's no magic dye for wee, and no shark can squeeze through pool pipes.
Who acts: dropped penny, magic dye, shark · What happens: drop, not kill, be, squeeze · To what, where: pool pipes
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 (dropped penny, magic dye, shark), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 kill | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 penny | det |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 penny | amod |
| 4 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 kill | advmod |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 's | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 's | expl |
| 10 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | parataxis |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 dye | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dye | compound |
| 13 | dye | dye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 's | nsubj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 wee | case |
| 15 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dye | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 squeeze | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 squeeze | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 shark | det |
| 19 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 squeeze | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 squeeze | aux |
| 21 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kill | conj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 pipes | case |
| 23 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pipes | compound |
| 24 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 squeeze | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | 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 | drop | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not kill | can | a dropped penny | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | be | present | no magic dye for wee | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | squeeze | can | no shark | pool pipes | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through pipe=Trajectory |
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:4.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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