Eyes and ears, sentence 8
In the Second World War, Britain spread the carrot story to help hide that its pilots used radar.
Who acts: Britain, carrot story, pilots · What happens: spread, help, hide, use · To what, where: carrot story, Second World War, radar
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 (Britain, carrot story, pilots), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 War | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 War | det |
| 3 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 War | amod |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 War | compound |
| 5 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 War | punct |
| 7 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | nsubj |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 10 | carrot | carrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | compound |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 story | acl |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 used | mark |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pilots | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pilots | pilot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 used | nsubj |
| 18 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hide | ccomp |
| 19 | radar | radar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 used | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | Britain | the carrot story | the Second World War | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme in war=Destination | |||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | Britain not said here | the carrot story not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | infinitive | the carrot story not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | use | past | story's pilots | radar | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radar=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:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:8.
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.
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