Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 13

The "sea" you hear in a seashell is the sound around you echoing inside the shell; a cup held to your ear does the same.

Who acts: you, sea, sound, cup · What happens: hear, be, echo, hold, do · To what, where: sea, seashell, sound, shell, ear, same

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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 (you, sea, sound, cup), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sea	punct
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sound	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sea	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sea	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 seashell	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 seashell	det
9	seashell	seashell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sound	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sound	det
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	around	around	ADP	_	15 echoing	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sound	nmod
15	echoing	echo	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sound	acl
16	inside	inside	ADP	_	18 shell	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shell	det
18	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 echoing	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 cup	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cup	det
21	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 does	nsubj
22	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 cup	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 does	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 ear	nmod:poss
25	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 held	obl
26	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sound	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 same	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 does	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sound	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	you	the sea not said here	a seashell		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus
2	is a	present	the sea	the sound		you nmod	tree rules
3	echo	gerund	the sound not said here		the shell		vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside shell=Location
4	hold	participle	a cup not said here	your ear			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	present	a cup	the same			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality

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:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:13.

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 ×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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