Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 4
And sometimes the strange claim wins: eat mountains of carrots and your skin really can turn a bit orange, and you really are a little taller in the morning than at bedtime.
Who acts: strange claim, wins, skin, you · What happens: win, eat, turn, be · To what, where: mountains
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» 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 (strange claim, wins, skin, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wins | cc |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 wins | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 claim | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 claim | amod |
| 5 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wins | nsubj |
| 6 | wins | win | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 eat | punct |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 carrots | case |
| 11 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mountains | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turn | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 skin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turn | nsubj |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 turn | advmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 turn | aux |
| 17 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 eat | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bit | det |
| 19 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 orange | obl |
| 20 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 turn | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 taller | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 taller | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 taller | nsubj |
| 24 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 taller | advmod |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 taller | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 little | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 taller | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 turn | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 morning | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 morning | det |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taller | obl |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 bedtime | case |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 bedtime | case |
| 34 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taller | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | the strange claim | sometimes property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | wins | mountains of carrots | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | can | your skin | orange property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | you | morning | than bedtime; a little obl:unmarked; tall property | 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:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:4.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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