When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 9
Glass is a solid; some old windows are thicker at the bottom because old glass panes were made uneven.
Who acts: Glass, old windows · What happens: be, make · To what, where: bottom, old glass panes
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 (Glass, old windows), 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 | Glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 solid | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 solid | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 solid | det |
| 4 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 solid | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 windows | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 windows | amod |
| 8 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thicker | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thicker | cop |
| 10 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 solid | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 bottom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bottom | det |
| 13 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thicker | obl |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 made | mark |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 panes | amod |
| 16 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 panes | compound |
| 17 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 thicker | advcl |
| 20 | uneven | uneven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 made | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 solid | 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 | is | present | Glass | solid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | some old windows | the bottom | thick property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | past · passive | old glass panes | uneven property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:9.
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): 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.
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