Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 13

Ordinary paper is very hard to fold in half more than about seven times, but in 2002 a student, Britney Gallivan, folded a very long thin strip 12 times.

Who acts: Ordinary paper, student · What happens: be, fold · To what, where: long thin strip, 2002

This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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 (Ordinary paper, student), 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	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paper	amod
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fold	mark
7	fold	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	14 times	case
9	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 times	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 times	case
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 seven	advmod
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fold	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 folded	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 folded	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 2002	case
18	2002	2002	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 folded	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 student	det
20	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 folded	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 student	punct
22	Britney	Britney	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 folded	nsubj
23	Gallivan	Gallivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Britney	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Britney	punct
25	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 strip	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 strip	amod
29	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 strip	amod
30	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 folded	obj
31	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 times	nummod
32	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 folded	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ordinary paper				hard property	tree rules
2	fold	to-infinitive	Ordinary paper not said here			time		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fold	past	a student	a long thin strip	2002	time		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent strip=Patient

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:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.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 ×2. 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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