When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 13
Moss grows wherever it is damp and shady, which can be any side of a tree, so it is not a reliable compass.
Who acts: Moss · What happens: grow, be, not be · To what, where: side, reliable compass
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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 (Moss), 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 | Moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 damp | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 damp | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 damp | cop |
| 6 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grows | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shady | cc |
| 8 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 damp | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 side | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 side | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 side | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 side | cop |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 side | det |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 damp | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 compass | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 compass | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 compass | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 compass | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 compass | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 compass | det |
| 24 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 compass | amod |
| 25 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grows | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grows | 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 | grow | present | Moss | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Moss | damp, wherever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Moss not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | can | any side | of a tree | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is a | present | Moss | a reliable compass | tree rules |
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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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): 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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