Eyes and ears, sentence 0

Grandma pushes the carrots across the table: "Eat up, they'll help you see in the dark!" She heard it as a child in the war, when everyone said British night pilots shot down enemy planes thanks to carrots.

Who acts: Grandma, carrots, you, everyone, British night pilots · What happens: push, eat up, help, see, hear, say · To what, where: carrots, table, dark, enemy planes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» 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 (Grandma, carrots, you, everyone), 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	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	nsubj
2	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	parataxis
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 carrots	det
4	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pushes	obj
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Eat	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Eat	punct
10	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pushes	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 Eat	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 help	aux
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Eat	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 help	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dark	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dark	det
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 pushes	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 pushes	punct
23	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 child	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 child	det
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 war	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 war	det
31	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 child	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 said	advmod
34	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	parataxis
36	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pilots	amod
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pilots	compound
38	pilots	pilot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 shot	nsubj
39	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 said	ccomp
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 shot	compound:prt
41	enemy	enemy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 planes	compound
42	planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 shot	obj
43	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shot	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 carrots	case
45	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 thanks	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pushes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	present	Grandma	the carrots	the table		tree rules
2	eat up in a quote	infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help in a quote	future	carrots = carrot				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	see in a quote	infinitive	you		the dark		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	hear	past	Grandma	dark		as a child in the war	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	everyone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	shoot down	past	British night pilots	enemy planes		thanks to carrots obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plane=Theme

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:003-eyes-and-ears.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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